The ups and downs of Puertollano, Spain, as a producer of
solar power, could have implications for the U.S., where a
similar solar push is under way.

A high-tech route
to smarter kids?

After boom
and bust,
solar power
finds a place
in Spain

But joining another district ‘would
be a last resort,’ schools chief says
By Sheila G. Miller and Patrick Cliff
The Bulletin

By Elisabeth Rosenthal
New York Times News Service

PUERTOLLANO, Spain —
Two years ago, this gritty mining
city underwent a brief, 21st-century gold rush. Long famous for
coal, Puertollano discovered another energy source it had overlooked: the relentless, scorching
sun.
With generous incentives
from the Spanish government
to jump-start a national solar
energy industry, the city aggressively set out to replace its failing
coal economy by attracting solar
companies, with a campaign slogan: “The Sun Moves Us.”
Soon, Puertollano, home to the
Museum of the Mining Industry,
became a hub of alternative energy, with two enormous solar
power plants, factories making
solar panels and silicon wafers,
and clean energy research institutes. Half the solar power
installed globally in 2008 was
installed in Spain.
Farmers sold land for solar
plants. Boutiques opened. And
people from all over the world,
seeing business opportunities,
moved to the city, which had suffered 20 percent unemployment
and a population exodus.
But as low-quality, poorly designed solar plants sprang up
like weeds on Spain’s plateaus,
Spanish officials came to realize
that they would have to subsidize
many of them indefinitely, and
that the industry they had created might never produce efficient
green energy on its own.
See Solar / A4

Buff Elementary teacher Elizabeth Bare helps students Cesar Aguirre, 9, and Kaegan Prevett, 9, with a
class project last week. The students were using their
laptops to gather information from the Internet about
the Iditarod race in Alaska. Bare uses a wireless
mouse that operates her SMART board — a display
connected to a computer and projector that shows the
computer’s desktop on the board in the background.

It’s pricey and of unknown
value in boosting achievement,
but local districts say this: It gets
kids interested and involved
By Sheila G. Miller
The Bulletin

MADRAS — When Elizabeth Bare’s third-grade students study mapping and Alaska’s Iditarod Trail Sled
Dog Race, they reference the fraying paper map tacked
up at the rear of the classroom.
The Buff Elementary students also spend quite a bit
of time studying directions and map coordinates with
the help of a software
program called Kidspiration. Their fingers tap
persistently on laptops
and their eyes rest on
the classroom’s SMART
board, which Bare operates with a wireless
mouse and slate from the
With her wireless mouse, rear of the room.
Bare can control the
This is a 21st-century
SMART board from anyclassroom.
where in the classroom.
Teachers and administrators hope students will
become as proficient in
technology as they do in reading, writing and arithmetic. It’s not cheap, and there’s no proof that having the
latest gadgets available will increase student achievement or help them pass state tests. In fact, districts are
beginning to conduct their own research on whether
the millions of dollars being spent on technology will
help students learn. But anecdotal evidence from area
districts indicates the addition of computers, iPods and
other technology does what sometimes no standard lesson plan can: get kids engaged and interested.
See Technology / A5

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Student-to-computer ratio
in Bend-La Pine Schools
Bend-La Pine Schools has spent millions over the past
several years to increase the number of computers in
classrooms and labs in its district schools. Below, a look
at the student-to-computer ratio in each Bend-La Pine
school. Instructional Technology Coordinator Amy
Lundstrom would like to see one computer for every two
to three students in the district. For now, some schools
have more computers because of private fundraising.

SISTERS — Sisters School District officials are
facing such serious budget shortfalls for the next
few years that they have begun talking about fundamental changes to the district’s operations, including possibly merging with another school district or reducing its three schools to two.
Administrators and board members say it’s unlikely such drastic changes will occur this year.
But, “We have some difficult times financially coming,” Superintendent Elaine Drakulich said Monday.
Drakulich estimates the district will have to fill
a $667,000 gap for the 2010-11 school year. That
shortfall will increase to about $1.2 million in 201112. The district has a roughly $12 million budget.
As it stands, Drakulich believes the district could
try to make cuts in existing programs or in teachers and other staffing. But Sisters residents routinely stress their interest in a district with strong
academics, after-school activities and learning opportunities like outdoor school.
That’s where Drakulich’s less-traditional costsaving measures come in. While it’s still early in
the process, Drakulich said several options are under consideration.
For one, she said, Sisters schools could become a
part of another school district or regionalize some
of its services, like special education or human
resources, with other districts or the High Desert
Education Service District.
See Sisters / A4

There’s no record of an orca in the wild
ever killing a person, but cut one off from
its family’s influence, and a fatality like last
month’s becomes more likely, scientists say.

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ORLANDO, Fla. — Neuroscientist Lori Marino
and a team of researchers have explored the brain
of a dead killer whale with an MRI and found an
astounding potential for intelligence.
Killer whales, or orcas, have the second-biggest
brains among all ocean mammals, weighing as
much as 15 pounds. It’s not clear whether they are as
well-endowed with memory cells as humans, but scientists have found they are amazingly well-wired.
Scientists are trying to better understand how killer whales are able to learn local dialects, teach one
another specialized methods of hunting and pass on
behaviors that can last generations — longer possibly than seen with any other species except humans.
See Orcas / A4

Letters capture nation’s grief after Kennedy assassination
By Katie Zezima
New York Times News Service

Vol. 107, No. 68,
38 pages, 7 sections

Budget may
force Sisters
schools into
merger, cuts

BOSTON — Days after President John F. Kennedy was killed,
Dr. Ira Seiler sat at his desk and
wrote a letter of condolence to
his widow, Jacqueline Kennedy.
“Today, on Thanksgiving,

I keenly sense his death for it
was just three years ago today
that I forced my breath into the
lungs of his newly born son,”
Seiler wrote. John F. Kennedy
Jr., was born premature; Seiler,
a pediatric resident, said he
placed a tube in the baby’s tra-

chea and breathed air into his
lungs.
“I met your husband only once
after this but the part I played in
saving his son’s life gave me a
feeling of deep closeness to your
husband,” Seiler wrote. He added: “I only wish I had been able

to give my life in place of that of
your husband. He had so much
to offer.”
Seiler was one of more than a
million people who wrote to Jacqueline Kennedy in the months
after her husband’s assassination in 1963. Many of the letters

were destroyed; thousands of
others were stored in the John F.
Kennedy Presidential Library in
Boston, where they were rarely
seen, and at the National Archives; even many of the writers
forgot what they said.
See JFK / A4

2010 Ford Escapes sit at a dealership in February in Littleton, Colo. When buying a new car, there are several factors consumers
should consider beyond purchase price, says Mark Ragsdale, author of “Car Wreck: How You Got Rear-Ended, Run Over & Crushed
by the U.S. Auto Industry.” The type of loan and the trade-in value are two important ones, he says.

Avoid the alluring pitfalls
when buying that new car
By Gregory Karp
The Morning Call (Allentown, Pa.)

Car buyers often focus on
haggling down a dealer’s offer toward invoice price. That’s
OK, but often that’s not where
the real money is, says a former
car dealer in his new book.
Instead of the purchase price,
consumers should focus on other components of the deal, especially loans, trade-ins and their
desire to buy more car than they
can afford, said Mark Ragsdale,
author of “Car Wreck: How
You Got Rear-Ended, Run Over
& Crushed by the U.S. Auto
Industry.”
“You’d be better off paying
MSRP and paying attention to
the big stuff,” Ragsdale said.
“But dealer profitability gets the
lion’s share of consumer focus
and attention.”
Here, Ragsdale said, are a
few things to consider other

than price:
• That upside-down feeling:
Negative equity is when you
owe more on your car than it’s
worth. This is true of most who
drive a financed new car off
the lot. The vehicle can lose a
quarter of its value as soon as
the rear wheels hit the street.
But even many people who
have owned their cars for years
are upside-down. It’s typical to
own a car three or four years
before your car is worth what
you owe on it. This depreciation snowballs as consumers
get car fever before they have
equity in their vehicle. Dealers
and auto lenders can accommodate these people by essentially
rolling that negative equity
into their next car loan — often
keeping the payments reasonable by extending the loan.
Customers trade in their cars
every 39 months on average, but

finance them for an average of
64 months, Ragsdale said. That
leaves many upside-down by
an average of $4,700, Edmunds.
com said. The lesson? Don’t buy
a new vehicle until you pay off
your current one.
• Trade-in value: Many factors
affect trade-in value, including
a massive recall such as the one
Toyota is experiencing. Among
the best resources for finding
the value of your car are online
car-buying sites, Ragsdale said.
Edmunds.com, KBB.com and
your insurance agent can provide used-car prices, too, but
they might not be as “real-time”
as prices on cars for sale at this
moment, he said.
• Rule of 78s: This method of
calculating loans is essentially
a prepayment penalty because
it front-loads the interest. You
will be on the hook for most of
the interest, even if you pay the

loan off early or trade in the car.
The figure 78 comes from the
sum of the digits one through
12 — the number of months in
a year — and from a time when
most loans were for 12 months.
You want a simple-interest auto
loan.
• Simple math: When you see
an advertised payment of less
than $400, ask yourself how
reasonable that is. Simple math
tells you that a $25,000 car paid
over 48 months costs $521 per
month — before interest, taxes,
fees and negative equity.
The ideal way for many people to buy a car is to pay cash for
a slightly used car and drive it
for a decade. If you have caviar
taste on a fish sticks budget, buy
used or lease a vehicle. Leasing
is more expensive than buying and holding, but it doesn’t
put you thousands of dollars
upside-down.

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Nobody won the jackpot Monday
night in the Megabucks game,
pushing the estimated jackpot
to $8.2 million for Wednesday’s
drawing.

Advances
on checks to
jobless touch
off criticism
By Robert Faturechi
Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES — The payday loan industry has found a
new and lucrative source of
business: the unemployed.
Payday lenders, which typically provide workers with
cash advances on their paychecks, are offering the same
service to those covered by
unemployment insurance.
No job? No problem. A
typical unemployed Californian receiving $300 a week
in benefits can walk into one
of hundreds of storefront operations statewide and walk
out with $255 well before
that government check arrives — for a $45 fee. Annualized, that’s an interest rate of
459 percent.
Critics of the practice,
which has grown as the jobless rate has increased, say
these pricey loans are sending the unemployed into a cycle of debt from which it will
be tough to emerge.
Many payday clients pay
off their loans and immediately take out another, or
borrow from a second lender
to pay off the first, and sink
ever deeper into debt. Typical
customers take out such loans
about 10 times a year, by some
estimates.
Lenders “market the product to give the illusion of assistance,” said Ginna Green, a
spokeswoman for the advocacy group Center for Responsible Lending. “But instead
of throwing them a life jacket
they’re throwing them a cinder block.”

“We’re seeing a lot of demand
from formerly banked businesses that
are now looking to us to meet their needs.”
— Mark Pinsky, chief executive of Opportunity Finance, a network of financial groups

With bank credit frozen, small
U.S. businesses turn to microlenders
By Ylan Q. Mui
The Washington Post

Ryan Fochler’s life changed
six years ago when he left his
job in the computer industry to
buy an Arlington County, Va.based dog-walking business
with $50,000 in personal savings
and a home-equity line of credit.
The firm grew quickly, with revenue more than doubling each
year. By 2008, Fochler was ready
to expand the business into a
full-fledged pet day-care service
called Dog Paws ‘n Cat Claws.
The only problem was money.
Fochler wanted to convert an
old drugstore into a 7,000-squarefoot paradise for pets, complete
with retail products and dog
training. But those plans collided
with the most severe financial
crisis in a generation, and credit
froze up. At one point, Fochler
said, his bank refused to release
the money needed to complete
the construction.
“We just kind of hit it at completely the wrong time,” he said.
But, he added, for entrepreneurs,
“failing is not an option.”
To help plug the gap, Fochler
turned to the Latino Economic
Development Corp.’s nascent
microlending program, part of a
growing network of financial institutions that specialize in small
loans to mom-and-pop operations that are often below banks’
radar. The average size of the
LEDC’s loans is $10,000 at a 10
percent interest rate, said Lend-

ing Director Rob Vickers. Many
banks will not consider loans
less than $200,000, he said.
Microlending first became
popular as a form of foreign investment in poor, emerging markets. Before joining the LEDC
a few years ago, Vickers was a
microlending specialist in Latin
America for the World Bank,
including financing projects in
Nicaragua to help rural villagers
connect to electrical grids. The
trend has been slower to take off
in the United States.
But tightened underwriting
standards have pushed many
consumers out of the traditional
banking system and sent them
hunting for alternatives. In a
survey of 16 microlenders by Opportunity Finance, a network of
financial groups, 81 percent reported that applications for those
small-dollar loans increased during the fourth quarter compared
with the previous year.
“We’re seeing a lot of demand
from formerly banked businesses that are now looking to us to
meet their needs,” said Mark
Pinsky, chief executive of Opportunity Finance.
In addition, the Internet has
created a niche of microlending
that allows businesses to appeal
to everyday consumers for capital through peer-to-peer lending.
Renaud Laplanche, chief executive of the Lending Club, said
small businesses account for
about 10 percent of loans made

on his peer-lending site, with the
average amount about $18,000.
Laplanche said that demand has
increased among small businesses but that individuals have
also grown more cautious about
whom they lend money to.
“It’s not like if you can’t get
any loan from a bank, you can
get it from Lending Club,” he
said. “The individual lenders are
also savvy investors.”
But Fochler said that even the
staff members at the LEDC were
surprised that he could not qualify for a bank loan when he approached them two years ago. He
reported record sales each year,
with growth rates averaging 170
percent. The pet day care is profitable. Fochler employs 25 people
and recently added dog training
to his services. But he said that
after the financial crisis, banks
not only wanted to see profitability, but also matching assets.
At the LEDC, Vickers said
staff members consider not only
standard criteria such as credit
scores in approving loans but
also the entrepreneur’s ability to
pay. The LEDC requires all applications to go through credit
counseling to be approved and
scrutinizes companies’ balance
sheets. And it helps borrowers separate personal expenses
from business ones, typically a
tangled web for small-business
owners.
“We are obsessed with making good loans,” Vickers said.

Deborah Tewey unwillingly
joined a large and fast-growing
club: victims of identity fraud.
The Baltimore County elementary school teacher discovered this
when checking her bank account
online before heading out on a
shopping trip this month. The $700
she had in the account had been
cleaned out.
At that point, Tewey began a
two-week odyssey of alerting her
card issuer, merchants and the
police that a stranger had used her
debit card. And what she found is
that even though identity theft is
now a well-known problem, some
companies seem to take it more seriously than others.
More than 11 million U.S. adults
were victims of identity theft last
year, a 12 percent rise from the year
before, according to Javelin Strategy & Research. Identity thieves got
away with $54 billion, or $6 billion
more than the year before.
Javelin blames the surge on the
weak economy.
“ID theft is being taken more
seriously, but one problem is it’s
not being taken seriously enough,”
says James Van Dyke, Javelin’s
president. “Some companies
are much better than others, no
question.”
Some banks and online retailers, for instance, use sophisticated
analyzers to match callers’ voice
prints with those known to engage
in the fraud, says Scott Mitic, chief
executive of TrustedID.
But other businesses still mail
statements revealing customers’
Social Security numbers or toss
documents with personal information in trash bins for anyone to
steal, says Linda Foley, founder of
the Identity Theft Resource Center.

Counting beans
Companies weigh the cost of
new safety measures against the
cost of fraud and the loss of customer trust, Foley says.
“Whichever is lower is the one
they go with,” she says. “It’s a beancounter issue.”
That’s because businesses end
up bearing the brunt of fraud costs.
The typical amount lost last year
to ID fraud was $4,841 per victim,
with consumers on average picking up $373, Javelin reported.
That doesn’t mean consumers
aren’t put out by fraud. Tewey, for
instance, was the victim of one
of the most common forms of ID
fraud, and there are lessons in her
tale.
First, victims should call the
card issuer if they suspect fraud.
Tewey couldn’t because her credit
union delayed its opening because
of the recent snowstorms. She
called Visa, which put a freeze on
her card and told her about recent
account activity.
Tewey then contacted Netflix,
where someone had tried to open
an account with her card. Netflix
said the application was rejected
because the ZIP code given didn’t
match the ZIP code for the billing
address.
Her next call was to HewlettPackard, where Tewey says the
thief ordered a $620 laptop. The
computer hadn’t been shipped, but
Tewey says Hewlett-Packard told
her the order couldn’t be stopped.
The customized laptop was being
assembled in China, and the company would have to wait until it arrived in this country before it could
reimburse her, she says.
Adding to her frustration, Tewey
says, Hewlett-Packard didn’t ask
for the card’s security code when
the order was made, a step that’s
supposed to thwart fraud. HewlettPackard said it asked for other verifying information.
Tewey notified her credit union
of the theft when it opened the next
day, and upon its suggestion, filed a
police report.
Reporting the theft to the police
should be the next step after notifying the card issuer.
“That is the holy grail that says,
‘I am a victim,’” Foley says. Some
consumers say they are victims of
ID fraud, but the only way some
companies trust those claims is if
there is a police report, Foley says.

THE BULLETIN • Tuesday, March 9, 2010 A3

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White House launches health
push with Obama on offense
By Amy Goldstein
and Scott Wilson
The Washington Post

Doug Mills / New York Times News Service

In a letter to health insurance executives and a speech Monday
at Arcadia University in Glenside, Pa., President Barack Obama
took aim at insurance rate increases. “How much higher do premiums have to rise,” he said, “before we do something about it?”

WASHINGTON — The White
House is mounting a stinging, sustained broadside against health
insurance rate increases as President Barack Obama and his aides
enter what they hope will be the
final stretch of a year-long political war over health-care reform.
Obama and his health secretary staged a two-pronged attack
Monday in a stern letter to health
insurance chief executives and
a speech in which the president
castigated insurance companies
22 times. “How much higher do
premiums have to rise,” he demanded, “before we do something
about it?”
The messages are part of a new
strategy by Obama and those
around him to ratchet up the pace

HEALTH CARE
REFORM
and populist appeal of their rhetoric against the health insurance
industry. The barbed tone moves
far beyond that of the 2008 presidential campaign, when Obama
began to say that medical coverage should be accessible and affordable for more Americans.
It remains unclear whether the
strategy, coming this late in the debate, will mobilize support among
the public and on Capitol Hill
for the legislation that the White
House and congressional Democrats favor. Obama has asked
Congress to conduct final votes
within 10 days, before lawmakers
leave for a two-week break.

Senate panel
to investigate
long-term
care deaths

By Adam Nossiter
New York Times News Service

DAKAR, Senegal — Officials
and human rights groups in
Nigeria sharply increased the
count of the dead after a weekend of vicious ethnic violence,
saying Monday that as many
as 500 people — many of them
women and children — may
have been killed near the central city of Jos, long a flashpoint
for tensions between Christians
and Muslims.
The dead were Christians and
members of an ethnic group
that has been feuding with the
Hausa Fulani, Muslim herders
who witnesses and police officials identified as the attackers.
Officials said the attack was a
reprisal for violence in January,
when dozens of Muslims were
slaughtered in and around Jos,
including more than 150 in a
single village.
Early Sunday, the attackers
set upon the villagers with machetes, killing women and children in their homes and ensnaring the men who tried to flee in
fishnets and animal traps, then
massacring them, according to
a Nigerian rights group whose
investigators went to the area.
Some homes were set on fire.
The latest attacks were “a sort
of vengeance from the Hausa
Fulani,” said the Rev. Emmanuel
Joel, of the Christian Association of Nigeria in Jos.

Jon Gambrell / The Associated Press

An unidentified woman covers her face from the smell
of dead bodies Monday in
Dogo Nahwa, Nigeria. Ethnic
violence claimed as many as
500 lives over the weekend.
After the January attacks,
“the military watched over the
city, and neglected the villages,”
he said. The attackers, said Joel,
“began to massacre as early as
4 a.m. They began to slaughter
the people like animals.”
The police said Monday that
they had made 95 arrests, including a number of Hausa
Fulani.

Iraqi parties both claim
to be ahead in election

New York Times News Service

The Associated Press

The Associated Press

Rescue workers and residents of a village in the Turkish province of Elazig search for possible survivors Monday in the debris of a destroyed house hours after a strong earthquake killed at least 57.

Not more quakes, just more
people living in quake zones
By Seth Borenstein
The Associated Press

First the ground shook in Haiti, then Chile and now Turkey.
The earthquakes keep coming
hard and fast this year, causing
people to wonder if something
sinister is happening underfoot.
It’s not.
While it may seem as if there
are more earthquakes occurring, there really aren’t. The
problem is what’s happening
above ground, not underground,
experts say.
More people are moving into
megacities that happen to be
built on fault lines, and they’re
rapidly putting up substandard
buildings that can’t withstand

earthquakes, scientists say.
And around-the-clock news
coverage and better seismic
monitoring make it seem as if
earthquakes are ever-present.
A magnitude 7.0 quake last
month killed more than 230,000
people in Haiti. Less than two
weeks ago, a magnitude 8.8
quake — the fifth-strongest since
1900 — killed more than 900
people in Chile. And on Monday,
a strong pre-dawn magnitude
6.0 quake struck rural eastern
Turkey, killing at least 51 people.
On average, there are 134
earthquakes a year that have a
magnitude between a 6.0 and
6.9, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. This year is off

to a fast start with 40 so far —
more than in most years for that
time period.
But that’s because the 8.8
quake in Chile generated a
large number of strong aftershocks, and so many occurring
this early in the year skews the
picture, said Paul Earle, a seismologist at the U.S. Geological
Survey.
Also, it’s not the number of
quakes, but their devastating
impacts that gain attention
with the death tolls largely due
to construction standards and
crowding, Earle said.
“The standard mantra is
earthquakes don’t kill people,
buildings do,” he said.

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Military funeral protest
to go before high court
By Mark Sherman
The Associated Press

The Supreme Court is entering an emotionally charged dispute between the grieving father
of a Marine who died in Iraq and
the anti-gay protesters who picket military funerals with inflammatory messages like “Thank
God for dead soldiers.”
The court agreed Monday to
consider whether the protesters’
message, no matter how provocative or upsetting, is protected by
the First Amendment or limited
by the competing privacy and
religious rights of the mourners.
The justices will hear an appeal from a Marine’s father to
reinstate a $5 million verdict
against the protesters after they
picketed outside his son’s funeral in Maryland four years ago.
Members of a Kansas-based
church have picketed military
funerals to spread their belief

that U.S. deaths in Afghanistan and Iraq are punishment
for the nation’s tolerance of
homosexuality.
The funeral protest dispute
was one of three cases the court
said it would hear in the fall. The
others involve whether parents
can sue drugmakers when their
children suffer serious side effects from vaccine and NASA’s
background checks on contract
employees. The government
says the decision in the NASA
case could throw into question
the background checks routinely
done on all federal workers.
The protest lawsuit stemmed
from picketing by members of
the fundamentalist Westboro
Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan.,
outside the funeral for Marine
Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder in
Westminster, Md. Snyder died
in March 2006 when his Humvee overturned.

BAGHDAD — The Iraqi
prime minister’s coalition and
its main secular rival both
claimed to be ahead in the vote
count Monday, a day after historic parliamentary elections
that the top U.S. commander
said would let all but 50,000
American troops come home
by the end of summer.
Sunday’s election, which
took place against a backdrop of violence in Baghdad,
marked a turning point for the
country’s nascent democracy.
The winner will help determine whether Iraq can resolve
its sectarian divisions and
preserve the nation’s fragile
security as U.S. troops leave.
Initial results for some provinces, as well as for Baghdad
— an area essential to determining any winner — were to
be announced today.
The election was only the
country’s second for a full
parliamentary term, and it attracted 62 percent of about 19
million eligible voters, according to the nation’s election
commission. The last such

election, in December 2005, attracted roughly 76 percent of eligible voters.
Officials attributed the lower
turnout to a combination of voter
intimidation, more stringent ID
requirements at the polls and
a drop in voter excitement. A
spate of attacks on election day
— some directly targeting voters
and polling stations — killed 36
people.
Gen. Ray Odierno, the top U.S.
commander in Iraq, called the
election a milestone and said
that every sign suggests Iraq
will be able to peacefully form a
new government in the coming
months.

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By Alex Berenson
The Senate Finance Committee has opened an investigation
into patient deaths and allegations of substandard treatment
at long-term care hospitals, small
specialty medical centers that
treat chronically ill patients.
The investigation focuses on
the Select Medical Corp., a forprofit corporation that runs 89
long-term care hospitals, more
than any other company. In a
letter sent on Monday to Select’s
chief executive, Robert Ortenzio,
the committee’s top two senators
demanded that Select provide
records about staffing levels and
quality at its hospitals.
The committee has substantial power over long-term care
hospitals because it oversees
Medicare. The federal program
spends almost $5 billion annually on the hospitals, providing
about 60 percent of their total
revenue.
An article in The New York
Times last month detailed poor
treatment and patient deaths at
long-term care hospitals, which
treat 200,000 seriously ill patients a year nationwide, but
rarely have full-time physicians
on staff. In one incident at a Select hospital in Kansas, a dying
patient’s heart alarm sounded
for 77 minutes before nurses responded. Select has said that it
conducted an appropriate clinical review in the case and terminated a clinician involved in the
patient’s care.
The article prompted the investigation, according to the letter, which was sent by Sen. Max
Baucus, D-Mont., the committee’s chairman, and Sen. Charles
Grassley of Iowa, the panel’s
senior Republican. The letter is
not a subpoena; companies usually respond voluntarily to such
requests for information.
Select Medical said that it
would cooperate fully with the inquiry. Through a spokeswoman,
Carolyn Curnane, the company
referred to the Times article as
misleading and inaccurate and
said it looked forward to providing the committee with accurate
facts about the quality of care.
Baucus and Grassley asked
Select to disclose its policies for
patient monitoring, emergency
situations and staffing, including
physician involvement at its hospitals and staff turnover. Former
employees of Select have said
that the company’s hospitals are
understaffed and rely heavily on
temporary nurses.
The letter also requests that
Select disclose information
about its discharge policies. Former employees have also said
that the company presses to keep
patients for 25 days and then
discharge them almost immediately, because patients are most
profitable if they stay exactly 25
days under government reimbursement rules.

Orcas
Continued from A1
These researchers have yet
to find evidence that an orca in
the wild has ever killed a person. But they aren’t surprised
that the world’s biggest, most
powerful and possibly smartest
predator, captured and kept for
years in a tank, cut off from the
influences of an extended family, could have a fatal encounter
with a human.
Human interaction with captive killer whales has come under scrutiny since Feb. 24, when
a large male orca with a checkered past killed a trainer at SeaWorld Orlando by dragging her
into a tank.
“I’m not trying to secondguess what was in this particular
whale’s mind,” said Marino, part
of the Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology Program at Emory
University in Atlanta. “But, certainly, if we are talking about
whether killer whales have the
wherewithal and the cognitive
capacity to intentionally strike
out at someone, or to be angry,
or to really know what they are
doing, I would have to say the answer is yes.”

Much still a mystery
Years of tediously difficult research has given scientists some
understanding of killer whales
— but also has made them aware
of how little they know about the
creatures.
For starters, there’s puzzlement over exactly how to categorize them.
They swim the world’s oceans
— they are more widely distributed than any whale, dolphin
or porpoise — in at least three
distinct populations. There are

fish-eating orcas that stay in one
area, flesh-eaters that wander
more widely along coasts, and a
third group that roams the deepblue waters.
The three groups have starkly
different diets, languages, hunting techniques and manners of
behaving around other marine
life, and they don’t seem to interact much with one another.
“If they didn’t have the same
paint jobs, you’d call them different species,” said Brad Hanson,
a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration biologist
in Seattle.
Yet the orcas’ DNA tells a
different story. Instead of the
world’s varied populations having genetics that spread outward
like a tree with several main
branches, theirs is but a single,
nearly straight trunk, except for
a mismatched pair of genes here
and there.
“It’s very, very strange,” said
Hanson, who participated in
research that led to the listing
of resident whales in waters
off the Northwestern U.S. as
endangered.
If genetic variety isn’t what
makes these killer-whale groups
so different, scientists suspect,
their enormous brains might be
the telltale factor.
Bigger animals typically have
bigger masses of brain cells. But
scientists use brain-weight-tobody-weight ratios as a rough
measure of intelligence. By that
measure, human brains, by comparison, are seven times average. Orcas’ brains are 2½ times
average — similar to those of
chimpanzees.
But scientist think that looking just at the brain-body ratio
seriously underestimates the
thinking power of larger marine
mammals. In other words, orcas
might be even much smarter

C OV ER S T OR I ES
than the size of their big brain
suggests.
Hal Whitehead, a biology professor at Dalhousie University
in Nova Scotia, awakened the
world of cetacean research in
2001 when he co-authored a controversial paper that suggested
no species other than humans
are as “cultural” as orcas.
“Culture is about learning
from others,” Whitehead said.
“A cultural species starts behaving differently than a species
where everything is determined
genetically.”

Talkative critters
Equally remarkable to researchers is the orca’s ability
to communicate with whistles
and pulsed calls, and to “see”
by making a clicking sound that
works like sonar.
Many cetaceans — whales,
dolphins and porpoises included
— have these abilities to some
degree. But orcas learn local
and complex languages that are
retained for many generations.
And their bio-sonar, or echolocation, abilities also amaze
researchers.
Professor Whitlow Au, of the
University of Hawaii’s Marine
Mammal Research Program,
finished a study recently adding
to evidence that orcas can use
their bio-sonar not just to find
fish in murky water and not just
to single out salmon, but to identify their favorite meal: chinook
salmon.
“They can recognize chinook
salmon from a long ways away,”
said Au, who put the distance
at roughly half a football field.
“They are able to use their biosonar to detect and track and
eventually catch them.”
Sam Ridgway, a neurobiologist and research veterinarian

Solar
Continued from A1
In September, the government
abruptly changed course, cutting payments and capping solar
construction. Puertollano’s brief
boom went bust. Factories and
stores shut, thousands of workers lost their jobs, foreign companies and banks abandoned
contracts that had already been
negotiated.
“We lost the opportunity to be
at the vanguard of renewables
— we were not only generating electricity, but also a strong
economy,” said Joaquin Carlos
Hermoso Murillo, Puertollano’s
mayor since 2004. “Why are they
limiting solar power, when the
sun is unlimited?”
Puertollano’s wrenching fall
points to the delicate policy calculations needed to stimulate nascent solar industries and create
green jobs, and might serve as
a cautionary tale for the United
States, where a similar exercise
is under way.
For now, electricity generation
from the sun’s rays needs to be
subsidized because it requires
the purchase of new equipment
and investment in evolving technologies. But costs are rapidly
dropping. And regulators are
still learning how to structure
stimulus payments so that they
yield a stable green industry that
supports itself, rather than just
costly energy and an economic
flash in the pan like Spain’s.
“The industry as a whole
learned a lot from what happened in Spain,” said Cassidy
DeLine, who analyzes the Euro-

Sisters
Continued from A1
Drakulich mentioned Black
Butte School District as a possible merger partner, but it remains unclear which, if any,
other districts could be part of
the plan.
Another proposal is to split
the middle school, sending
fifth- and sixth-graders to the
elementary school and seventhand eighth-graders to the high
school. The district could then
potentially sell or rent out one of
its three school buildings.
Drakulich said the district
could also save money by working with local public agencies
or private businesses to provide
some of the programs the district currently offers. Drakulich, for example, said perhaps
the Sisters Park and Recreation
District and the school district
could work together to provide after-school activities and
athletics.
Though selling land is difficult now, the district could also
put some of its property on the
market.
“I think it will be a very short
discussion about consolidation,”
Drakulich said. “That would be

Lourdes Segade / New York Times News Service

A technician makes adjustments to a solar panel last month at
the Institute of Concentration Photovoltaic Systems, one of the
research institutes in Puertollano, Spain. The most robust Spanish
solar companies have survived the downturn and are re-emerging
as global players.

The most robust Spanish solar
companies survived the downturn, have restructured and are
re-emerging as global players.
For example, when the government changed course, Siliken
Renewable Energy, originally a
producer of solar panels, shut its
factories for five months and cut
its staff to 600 from 1,200. But after shifting its focus to external
markets like Italy, France and
the United States, and diversify-

ing into solar support services,
the company turned a profit.
Although Spain’s long-term
goal had been to produce 400
megawatts of electricity from solar panels by 2010, it reached that
milestone by the end of 2007.
In 2008 the nation connected
2.5 gigawatts of solar power
into its national grid, more than
quintupling its previous capacity and making it second only
to Germany, the world leader.
But many of the hastily opened
plants offered no hope of being
cost-competitive with conventional power, having been poorly designed or located where
there was inadequate sunshine,
for example.
Designs for solar power plants
vary. The most common type

a last resort in many minds.”
Much of the budget difficulty
comes from falling district enrollment and state budget issues.
The district will also lose money
by ending its contract with two
charter schools after this year:
the Sisters Charter Academy of
Fine Arts and the Sisters AllPrep Academy.
In the 2010-11 school year, Drakulich estimates 11 fewer students will attend the district’s
schools. Because Sisters is closing the two charter schools at
the end of this school year, enrollment will likely fall another
119 students. Under the district’s
current charter, it receives about
20 percent of all state funds for
those students.
The district will continue to
receive state money for charter school students in 2010-11,
even though the schools will be
closed. But after that, charter
school funds — about $200,000
annually — will be gone.
“As we get two to three years
out, the resources are not there,”
Drakulich said.
The district expects to see declining enrollment in its others
schools as well. That, combined
with a $50,000 decrease in the
district’s local service plan,
the loss of $315,000 in stimulus

funds and the need to put aside
more than $500,000 for PERS
funding, spells fiscal trouble for
the district.
Board member Glen Lasken
said the major changes like
merging two schools together
will not happen by the next
school year. The district staff is
not yet certain how much each
move could potentially save.
“Certainly we’re not going to
be closing any of our schools
this year,” Lasken said. “That’s
clearly not going to happen on
this kind of short notice this
year.”
School Board Chairwoman
Christine Jones said board
members want to be cautious as
they consider the list of drastic
options. Last year, the district
bridged a more than $1.5 million
budget gap mainly through staff
attrition.
The district also took one
step, if small, toward regional
consolidation when it shifted
payroll from Sisters to the High
Desert ESD. That move saved
the district about $60,000.
The High Desert ESD is investigating what kind of savings
area districts could see if they
consolidated some services.
That study should be ready at
the end of the year, Jones said.

pean solar market for Emerging
Energy Research, a firm based
in Cambridge, Mass. She noted
that other countries had since set
subsidies lower and issued stricter standards for solar plants.

Solar rebirth

at San Diego’s National Marine
Mammal Foundation, which
works for the Navy, said the orca
brain has a relatively smaller
amount of cerebral cortex — the
gray matter involved in memory,
attention and thought — than
the human brain does. But it has
large-diameter myelinated axons, which carry nerve impulses.
“It’s analogous to a computer
that has maybe less memory
but bigger wires,” said Ridgway,
who puts a high value on being able to work with orcas in
captivity. “The bigger the axon,
the faster the nerve impulses
travel.”
Patrick Hof, vice chairman
of the Department of Neuroscience at New York’s Mount Sinai
School of Medicine, summed up
the orca noodle as a “big brain, a
really big brain” with enormous
capacity.
But whether that capacity creates the potential for intentionally killing a human is something
for which there is “no scientific
knowledge to prove,” he said.
“It’s a wild animal to begin
with, and it has predatory behaviors that are well-known,”
Hof said. “It is possible that, in a
situation of stress or captivity or
stress related to captivity, some
of the natural behavior might be
expressed.”
Marino, the Emory neuroscientist, wonders about the extent
to which a captive orca could
grow frustrated with being cut
off from the cultural richness
of living among an extended
family — grandparents through
calves — and the environmental richness of swimming the
world’s oceans.
“Living in a tank and having
to splash people with your tail
every day for 27 years would
make anyone go nuts,” Marino
said.

uses photovoltaic panels to generate electricity. Others, called
thermal solar plants, use mirrors
to focus the sun���s energy on a liquid that, when heated, drives a
steam turbine.
In its haste to create a solar industry, Spain made some miscalculations: solar plants can be set
up so quickly and easily that the
rush into the industry was much
faster than anticipated. And the
lavish subsidies inflated Spanish
solar installation costs at a time
when they were rapidly decreasing elsewhere — in part because
of increasing competition from
panel makers in China, but also
because higher volumes produced economies of scale.
Even with the reduced incentives and local economic
downturn, the solar industry
gave Puertollano something
of a face-lift and, potentially, a
new economic future. Research
institutes there are developing
cutting-edge technologies. Unemployment, though around
10 percent, has not returned to the
20 percent figure. The city is
home to a number of solar businesses: a new 50-megawatt thermal-solar plant owned by the
Spanish energy giant Iberdrola
creating hundreds of jobs.
Although coal mines still dot
the landscape and a smokespewing petrochemical factory
remains one of Puertollano’s
largest employers, that new solar plant sits just next door, with
more than 100,000 parabolic
mirrors in neat rows on about
400 acres of former farmland.
Clean and white as a hospital
ward, it silently turns sunshine
into Spanish electricity.

“I think we need to take a look
and see what things we can do
for next year that are significant
but not radical,” Jones said.
Board members said they
want to avoid cutting programs
or significantly increasing class
size. Lasken said initiatives similar to last year’s could work.
“I think we’ll be able to make
cuts through attrition, but nothing too drastic,” Lasken said.
The district will only know
how much it can save through
attrition sometime in spring.
At a March 17 meeting, board
members are going to begin
working on more specific ideas
that could fill next year’s budget
gap, Lasken said.
“The primary charge is to get
a budget that is going to be balanced for next year and make
whatever tweaks or adjustments
to get through this upcoming
(budget) cycle,” Lasken said.
“Secondary, we’ll give some
ideas for broader changes if
we had to go down that road in
years to come.”
Sheila G. Miller can be
reached at 541-617-7831 or
at smiller@bendbulletin.com.
Patrick Cliff can be
reached at 541-633-2161 or
at pcliff@bendbulletin.com.

JFK
Continued from A1
For a new book, “Letters to
Jackie: Condolences From a
Grieving Nation,” released by
HarperCollins, Ellen Fitzpatrick,
a historian, culled through the
archives. Now she has published
about 250 letters, most for the
first time, from people around
the country who felt compelled
to write to Jacqueline Kennedy.
The letters, many of them
eloquent expressions of grief
— from a priest in an Eskimo
village, schoolchildren in Texas,
a middle-class family in California, a widow in Pittsburgh, a
Louisiana woman with a fourthgrade education — provide a
window into Americans struggling with poverty, fighting for
civil rights and trying to comfort
themselves and others in the face
of the president’s death.
“The lights of the prison have
gone out now,” wrote Stephen J.
Hanrahan, Prisoner 85255, from
a federal penitentiary in Atlanta.
“In this, the quiet time, I can’t
help but feel, that my thoughts
and the thoughts of my countrymen will ever reach out to that
light on an Arlington hillside for
sustenance. How far that little
light throws his beam.”
“There is great wisdom in the
hearts of these average folks
back in this moment in 1963,”
said Fitzpatrick, an American
political and intellectual historian and a professor at the University of New Hampshire.

Finding a book
The idea for the book came
as Fitzpatrick was conducting
research at the Kennedy library
on another project and remembered how, when she was a
young girl, she saw the former
first lady on television thanking
Americans for sending letters of
condolence. Fitzpatrick found
the letters and started culling
through them.
Because of copyright law, she
could not publish the letters —
from taxicab drivers to the widow of Medgar Evers to Langston
Hughes — without permission
from the writers or their heirs.
So she enlisted the help of genealogists and others to find them.
Only one person asked that
his letter remain private. Others
were shocked to learn that theirs
still existed.
“I had forgotten what I had
written,” said Tom Smith, who
skipped school at age 14 to see
the Kennedys in his hometown,
Dallas. About six blocks after
the motorcade passed, he said,
Kennedy was shot.
Days later, Smith bought a
simple condolence card with his
own money and mailed it to Jacqueline Kennedy.
“I know the grief you bear,” he
wrote. “I bear that same grief. I
am a Dallasite.” He added, “I’m
very disturbed because I saw
him a mere 2 minutes before that

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fatal shot was fired.”
Smith, now 61 and living in
San Antonio, said he had not realized how many people wrote
to Jacqueline Kennedy. “I felt so
bad about it, and so much a part
of it,” he said. “I thought I was the
only one doing it.”
Some correspondents did not
realize letters they had written
to family members about the assassination had been sent on to
Jacqueline Kennedy.

‘Sense of loss’
Ann Owens, 72, of Seattle,
was a Peace Corps volunteer in
Ethiopia when she heard that
the president had been killed.
Schoolchildren and villagers
mourned, and the school where
Owens taught was closed for
days. “I feel now as if a member of my family had died,” she
wrote to her mother. “In a very
real sense he was our idol; he
is the reason for us being here
— his idealism, his courage.”
Owens’ mother included her
daughter’s letter with her own
condolence note to the former
first lady, something Owens did
not learn until she was contacted
about the book. “It brought tears
to my eyes to hear my mom’s
words,” said Owens, whose
mother died in 1990.
Many of the letters show how
profoundly many felt Jacqueline
Kennedy’s loss.
“Twenty-six years of escaping from Hitler — growing up
in wartime China fleeing from
communism — watching my
father’s futile struggle against
cancer — seeing my roommate
killed in an automobile accident
— all these I deemed adequate
preparation for some of life’s
bitter moments,” wrote Gabriele
Gidion. “Yet NEVER, until last
Friday, have I felt such a desperate sense of loss and loneliness.”
Some historians view Kennedy as having been slow on civil
rights. But many of the letters
reveal how deeply he touched
many black Americans.
“We are a middle class Negro
family and had of course felt
after so long that President was
like a beacon — a light in the
darkness who would become
a second emancipator,” wrote
Cornelia M. Davis from Walnut
Creek, Calif.
Seiler, who was only 29 when
he assisted in John Jr.’s birth,
said he had received a thank you
note from the president-elect.
Seiler was invited to the Inauguration — an occasion so special
his wife wore her wedding dress
— and was seated next to Adlai
Stevenson.
Seiler was “devastated” upon
hearing news of the president’s
death, and wrote his letter in
longhand. He never kept a copy.
When it was read it back to him
over the phone as the book was
being prepared, “I got a little bit
too emotional,” Seiler said.
“I felt very strongly about
him,” he said. “I really thought
he was a great man.”

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Technology
Continued from A1
“Technology doesn’t teach,”
said Sue Taylor, the Jefferson
County School District instructional technology coach. “It’s
just another tool in a teacher’s
bag of tricks. But it might help
reach kids who weren’t being
impacted.”

Teaching tactics
in Jefferson County
There are all kinds of equipment and software being used in
classrooms these days. In addition to more common pieces like
iPods and laptops, many schools
are purchasing SMART boards,
a display connected to a computer and projector that projects
the computer’s desktop onto the
board. Teachers and students can
control the computer with a pen,
a finger or other implements, like
a tennis ball on a stick. Boards
can cost at least $2,000.
Jefferson County School District started its influx of classroom technology in 2007 with
a $250,000 federal grant. That
grant, designed to enhance education through technology for
students in third through fifth
grades, was followed by two similar ones in 2009, the most recent
for $275,000, and local business
Central Oregon Seeds Inc. provided some matching funds to
purchase more laptop carts.
Some of the money has gone to
professional development to help
teachers learn to use the software and hardware; the federal
grants require that 25 percent
of the funds go to professional
development. The rest has gone
to new equipment and programs
that officials hope will help improve student learning, with a
focus in third through seventh
grades. As part of the new focus
on technology, several teachers in each building have been
named technology mentors.
“It’s been a real groundswell,”
Taylor said. “If it had come from
the top down it wouldn’t have
been as successful. But people
were wanting to get involved.”
Now there are 80 SMART
boards in schools around the
district; there could be as many
as 120 by the start of the 2010-11
school year. Nearly all K-8 classrooms have projection equipment,
and more than a dozen laptop
carts moving through classrooms
in the district’s six schools.
The latest grant will also pay
for an after-school program for
20 seventh-graders who will
learn higher-level technology
skills. They will then become a
student help desk that provides
computer assistance to teachers
and students around the school,
and run a family night to teach
parents some tech skills.
With the resources the district
has put into technology, it now
wants to know whether any of it
will make a difference. So officials are doing research on their
own.
“We’re looking critically at our
practices, ‘How is what we’re doing impacting student achievement?’” Taylor said.
Taylor is using state assessment data and creating other ongoing in-class assessments that
will seek to show a connection
between the technology and the
increases students might make
in the classroom.
Some teachers have been
conducting research projects in
which they teach lessons with
the technology and give preand post-tests to see whether the
technology improves the lesson
or student understanding.
“It’s hard to isolate,” Taylor
said. “There’s a lot of things
we’re doing to try to improve student achievement.”

Not much research
Jefferson County isn’t the
only school district struggling
to determine just what effect
technology can have on student
achievement.
Many of the grants provided
to fund classroom computers
and other equipment comes with
a requirement that teachers go
through training and professional development; therefore,
whether the gains in achievement are linked to the technology or the teacher’s increased
abilities is hard to track.
And there’s not much completed research on the subject.
For example, the Center for
Applied Research in Educational
Technology is part of the International Society for Technology
in Education, which has offices
in both Eugene and Washington,
D.C. It offers research evidence
showing technology can influence academic performance, but
many of the studies are at least
10 years old.
A researcher in Colorado
studied teaching and student
outcomes in about 180 classes,
with teachers running a lesson
plan with and without SMART

Technology comparison for Bend-La Pine Schools
Bend-La Pine Schools Technology Director Steve Carlson hopes that in time
every classroom will have a presentation station — which includes a projector,
document camera and speakers, all of which can be connected to teachers’
laptops. Below, a look at the number of presentation stations in each school in
the district.

boards. The research generally indicated that students who
learned with the boards had a
higher achievement level, although in 23 percent of the cases
teachers produced better results
without the boards.
With so little research to show
whether money is being spent on
the right tools, more studies are
underway.
This year, the state of Oregon
awarded Bend-La Pine Schools
a nearly $275,000 grant to help
R.E. Jewell Elementary School
fourth-graders improve their
writing skills with an infusion
of computers and other tech gadgets. The goal of the grant: provide evidence that technology
can increase student learning in
core subjects.
To measure what effect, if
any, the influx of technology has
on students, teachers have collected writing samples. In the
spring they’ll take another set
of samples to see what progress
students have made. The district
will also use the state writing
assessment and will have the
fourth-graders take a technology
literacy assessment the state has
developed.
Several weeks ago, the school
received five carts, each with 16
laptops, for each fourth-grade
classroom. The classrooms will
also have SMART boards and
other gadgets.
Amy Lundstrom, Bend-La
Pine Schools’ instructional technology coordinator, based that
grant on information from the
Stanford Study of Writing, which
looked at college students’ writing and determined that nearly
40 percent of student writing
took place outside of the classroom online, in social networking and other forums.
According to the study, students write more now than in the
past but in different ways, and
are much less enthusiastic about
class writing than personal writing. Using technology, Lundstrom believes, will increase
Jewell student interest in developing writing skills.
Fourth- and fifth-grade teacher Jaime Speed has certainly
seen that phenomenon at Juniper Elementary, which became
a technology magnet school five
years ago.
Speed said she can’t prove
a definite correlation between
her students’ use of technology
and their scores on state assessments. But she has seen an improvement in student writing
and research ability and a clear
increase in interest.
“It’s tricky to know because
we’re constantly trying to improve, so is it the new reading
program or is it the technology?
It’s difficult to pinpoint,” Speed
said. “One thing I do know is
that it’s improved student interest in school and student interest in learning both reading and
writing.”
Many of the projects her students complete using laptops and
other technology are placed online on Speed’s Web site for parents and friends to see.
“They take such a great pride
in their work that they are constantly reading and practicing
and improving because they
know it’s not just for me,” she
said. “They know it’s a big deal,

and I see them taking a much
more involved interest in what
they’re learning.”
She’s also seen jumps in reading and on early literacy skills
tests after starting a program
three years ago in which she recorded herself reading and commenting on books, then put the
recordings on iPods that she sent
home with students so they could
practice reading at home.

Equipment isn’t cheap
It’s innovations like Speed’s
that Bend-La Pine Schools officials believe make the outlay of
funding for technology worthwhile. According to Finance Director Brad Henry, the district
has spent about $5.25 million
since the 2006-07 school year on
instructional technology. For the
2009-10 school year the district
budgeted $500,000, not counting
grants. The district operates annually on a roughly $120 million
budget.
Lundstrom said the first step
for Bend-La Pine was simply
getting every school operating on the same software and
hardware.
It’s taken a long time, but
Lundstrom feels like the district is finally getting where it
needs to be with the right tools
in classrooms.
“I think we’re a good halfway,” Lundstrom said.
The district almost exclusively uses Apple computers,
and Carlson said the plan is to
provide a laptop to each district
teacher and to place a presentation station, complete with projector, document camera and
speakers, in each classroom in
the district’s 27 schools.
“The greatest financial expenditure we have made is to
upgrade the school wiring, the
Internet connections, the supporting electronic equipment,”
Carlson wrote in an e-mail.
One of the challenges of funding instructional technology is
the constant need for upgrades;
Lundstrom hopes that won’t
prevent continued funds from
coming into her department.
Next year, eighth-graders
around Oregon will take a test
on their tech literacy; Lundstrom believes some students in
the district are unprepared.
“Some will do very very well,
others will be completely lost,”
she said.
That’s because for many
schools in the district, computer
access is limited to state testing.
“We can’t get them into the
labs to teach them skills,” Lundstrom said.
She’d like to see a ratio in the
district of two or three students
to each classroom computer.
And she wants the use of
technology to become an expectation of teachers, rather than a
choice.
“For many teachers, it’s still a
choice whether they want to use
technology or not,” Lundstrom
said. “Teachers need to see the
impact that technology learning
tools can have on students.”
They seem to be catching on;
a survey Lundstrom presented
to the school board in February
showed 67 percent of teachers
in the district considered themselves proficient or advanced

in using technology, more than
double from a previous survey
in 2009; the survey also indicated 94 percent of teachers said
their laptops were important or
necessary to do their jobs and
74 percent said their presentation stations were important or
necessary to do their jobs.
That’s how Buff Elementary’s
Bare sees technology in her
Madras classroom.
Bare’s class uses laptops for at
least an hour three or four days
each week. The class uses the
SMART board daily.
“It’s just part of the daily routine,” Bare said. “They know the
functions. They can do any type
of basic research. … They’re
pretty fluent in using this stuff.”
Bare sees students retaining
more information because they
are both seeing the lesson and
using their hands to reinforce it.
“I have 100 percent of my students participating and they’re
not afraid to make mistakes because we’re all doing something
new,” she said. “I don’t know
what I did before.”
And Juniper Elementary’s
Speed said she doesn’t know
what her students would do
without the knowledge they’re
gaining.
Her students write on blogs,
e-mail one another and pen pals
in Costa Rica, create documentaries and movies and podcasts.
Currently students are using a
software program called Garage Band to create raps about
the Bill of Rights. Her students
just completed a project they
worked on with a school in New
Jersey.
“Our world is different,” Speed
said. “We are actually preparing kids for jobs that don’t exist
yet, while 50 years ago we were
preparing them for jobs that existed. We need to teach our kids
to think collaboratively, to think
globally, to see the world beyond the classroom, or not just
our kids but the U.S. will be left
behind.”
Sheila G. Miller can be
reached at 541-617-7831 or
at smiller@bendbulletin.com.

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Al-Qaida suspect isn’t Myanmar junta
group’s spokesman
is selling state assets
ISLAMABAD — Pakistani
officials reversed course Monday on a recently captured
American suspected of being a
member of al-Qaida, saying the
man is not the terror network’s
U.S.-born spokesman, as they
initially believed.
The man arrested in the southern city of Karachi was first
identified as al-Qaida spokesman Adam Gadahn, the most
wanted American in the terrorist network. But authorities later
said it was a case of mistaken
identity and that they have a different American in custody.

Biden visits Mideast
to push peace talks
JERUSALEM — Vice President Joe Biden began a fiveday visit to the Middle East on
Monday, part of a concerted
American effort to restart Israeli-Palestinian peace talks
and keep Israel focused on imposing sanctions on Iran over
its nuclear program rather than
pursuing unilateral military
action.
Biden is due to meet Israeli,
Palestinian and Jordanian leaders and give a speech at Tel Aviv
University expressing American solidarity with Israel.
George Mitchell, the Obama
administration’s Middle East
envoy, announced Monday in
Jerusalem that Israel and the
Palestinians had agreed to
start indirect negotiations and
that he would be back next
week to continue structuring
those talks.

YANGON, Myanmar —
Myanmar’s military government has quietly begun the largest sell-off of state assets in the
country’s history, including more
than 100 government buildings,
port facilities and a large stake
in the national airline, diplomats
and businessmen here say.
The sell-off, analysts say, appears to be part of a political
transition as the government
introduces elections for the
first time in 20 years and a new
constitution under which the
military seems likely to perpetuate its rule, though more from
behind the scenes.
Diplomats and businessmen
say that the sales may allow
ruling generals to build up cash
for election campaigns to the
new parliament, where they
will hold 25 percent of seats.

Gates, Karzai plan
Kandahar offensive
KABUL — Defense Secretary Robert Gates met here on
Monday with President Hamid Karzai and Gen. Stanley
McChrystal to review plans for
a major U.S.-led offensive in
the city of Kandahar, the spiritual heart and birthplace of the
Taliban.
McChrystal, the top NATO
and U.S. commander in Afghanistan, declined to give a specific time, but told reporters at
a briefing in Kabul that it would
be several more months before
U.S., coalition and Afghan forces were at full strength.
— From wire reports

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A “phishing” scam targeting
Bank of the Cascades customers is under way, and state
officials are urging customers
to never divulge their bank account numbers online or over
the phone.
The Oregon Attorney
General’s Office said Monday it has lodged a surge of
complaints from individuals
who have received fraudulent
phone calls from an entity
claiming to be the Bank of the
Cascades. State officials said
the scammers are calling bank
customers and telling them
their bank accounts have been
compromised and that they
should verify their account
numbers over the phone.
State officials said a bank
will never call and ask for an
account number.
Customers who have received such calls can report
them to the Oregon Department of Justice Consumer
Hotline, at 877-877-9392, or
online at www.oregonattorney
general.gov.

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Tanker contract battle may be over
By Les Blumenthal

Phone scam targets
Bend bank customers

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WASHINGTON — Boeing now has the
inside track on a $35 billion contract to
start replacing the Air Force’s aging fleet
of aerial refueling tanks after Northrop
Grumman announced Monday that it
wouldn’t bid.
Northrop’s partner, the European Aeronautic Defense and Space Co., left open
the possibility that it could bid on its own,
though lawmakers and military analysts

said that might be difficult. EADS is the parent company of Airbus, Boeing’s fierce rival
in the commercial airplane market.
“This is now Boeing’s contract to lose,”
said Loren Thompson, a defense analyst
with the Lexington Institute, a national security research center based in northern
Virginia.
Defense Department officials didn’t indicate Monday whether they’d follow through
with the bidding process even though there
probably will be only one bid or negotiate a

sole-source contract with Boeing. Bids are
due in May, and the Air Force was expected
to award the contract this fall.
In a statement, Deputy Secretary of Defense William Lynn said the Pentagon was
disappointed that Northrop had decided
not to bid and said that the competition was
structured fairly so that both companies
could compete effectively.
Boeing supporters on Capitol Hill said
Defense Secretary Robert Gates had told
them the Air Force would move ahead with
awarding the contract even if only one firm
bid.
See Tanker / B3

EXECUTIVE FILE

Keeping it local

Bob Thomas:
No word from GM
Bend General Motors dealer Bob Thomas said Monday
that he was not among the
dealers whose franchises the
automaker offered to
reinstate. GM announced
Friday it would offer reinstatement to 661 of the more than
1,100 terminated dealers
to request arbitration. GM
had notified all those dealers as of Monday afternoon,
The Detroit News reported.
Thomas, who still services
GM vehicles under a winddown agreement, is preparing
for arbitration. Chrysler, which
eliminated 789 dealers, made
no reinstatement offer to its
nearly 400 former dealers
seeking arbitration.

New ReStore
opens in La Pine

Total new orders to American
factories for all manufactured
goods:
Seasonally adjusted
380

Nature’s General Store manager Calen Jessee says the Bend store follows the 150-mile rule for products it labels as local.
“If it’s coming from within 150 miles, we can justifiably call it local, if you can get there on horseback in a day,” Jessee says.

Nature’s General Store tries to eliminate the middleman,
bringing food straight from growers and outlets to customers
By Tim Doran
The Bulletin

T

he employees at Nature’s General Store in Bend made local
a habit long before it began appearing on bumper stickers.
For 27 years, Nature’s has sold natural and organic products in the Wagner Mall at Northeast Third Street and
Revere Avenue. Founded by Debbie
and Gordon Smith in 1983, the 5,200square-foot store sells organic or naturally grown fruits, vegetables, beef and
other products, many of them grown,
raised and made in Oregon, and as often as possible, Central Oregon.
If Nature’s advertises the product
on display as local, it has to meet the

150-mile rule, said Calen Jessee, store
manager.
“If it’s coming from within 150 miles,
we can justifiably call it local, if you can

By Miguel Helft
New York Times News Service

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Using massive computing power,
Google improves translation tool

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Oil, gas
prices
creeping
upward
By Clifford Krauss
New York Times News Service

HOUSTON — Crude oil and
gasoline prices are inching up
again.
Optimism about the economy,
new tensions in oil-producing
Nigeria and reports that China
intends to build up its strategic
reserves lifted crude prices to
around $82 on Monday, about a
$10 increase in the last month.
Prices at the pump are rising,
too, with the average national
price for a gallon of gasoline
jumping 5 cents in the last week,
to just above $2.75.
“That’s a drag on the economy,” said Tom Kloza, chief oil
analyst at the Oil Price Information Service, who estimated that
consumers were paying just over
$1 billion a day at the pump,
about $250 million more than
this time a year ago.
Kloza predicted that gasoline
prices would top $3 a gallon between April and June as warm
weather encouraged more driving, before dropping to as low as
$2.50 after the summer driving
season. “We’re in the fourth or
fifth inning of the typical end-ofwinter, early spring rise in gasoline prices,” he added.
The energy markets have been
relatively stable since early October, with crude prices moving
within a narrow range of $70
to $83. That followed years of
erratic prices, with oil trading
above $147 a barrel in July 2008
and falling below $33 only five
months later.
See Prices / B4

COLUMBIA RIVER
BANK ACQUISITION

Andy Tullis / The Bulletin

The Newberry Habitat for
Humanity held a grand opening for a new ReStore in
La Pine on Friday. The
store will be open Thursday
through Saturday from 9:30
a.m. to 5 p.m. The new ReStore, managed by Rolando
Alonzo Jr., will sell items similar to those that can be found
at the Bend ReStore, including used furniture, appliances,
mirrors and other items. With
the exception of Alonzo, the
store will be staffed entirely
by volunteers. Applications
for new volunteers are being
accepted. Money generated at the ReStore will help
fund houses that Habitat for
Humanity will build in the local community. Alonzo said
plans call for building three
new homes in the La Pine
area during 2010. “We’ve
had a tremendous response
from the La Pine and Sunriver
communities,” Alonzo said.
— From staff reports

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — In a
meeting at Google in 2004, the discussion turned to an e-mail message the
company had received from a fan in
South Korea. Sergey Brin, a Google
founder, ran the message through an
automatic translation service that the
company had licensed.
The result read: “The sliced raw
fish shoes it wishes. Google green onion thing!”
Brin said Google ought to be able
to do better. Six years later, its free

TECH
FOCUS
Google Translate service handles 52
languages, more than any similar
system, and people use it hundreds of
millions of times a week to translate
Web pages and other text.
Google’s efforts to expand beyond
searching the Web have met with
mixed success.
See Translation / B3

get there on horseback in a day.”
It sells beef raised on ranches in Tumalo, Alfalfa and elsewhere in the region.
The beef from Borlen Cattle Co., in
Alfalfa, feeds on spent grain and hops
from local breweries.
Nature’s also works to keep prices
low and products fresh by picking up
its products from growers or outlets in
the Willamette Valley, rather than having them age on trucks as they travel to
distribution centers before heading to
Central Oregon.
“We pride ourselves in not listening to
distributors, not listening to suppliers,”
Jessee said. “That’s really where our
niche is, looking forward.”
See Nature’s / B3

Franz Och
leads the machine translation team
at Google’s
headquarters
in Mountain
View, Calif.,
where the
company
keeps a replica of the Rosetta Stone.
Peter DaSilva
New York Times
News Service

New owner
says it plans
to be involved
in community
By Andrew Moore
The Bulletin

Similar corporate cultures, an
attractive branch footprint and
government assistance all made
Columbia State Bank’s acquisition of Columbia River Bank in
January “an attractive financial opportunity,” said Melanie J. Dressel,
president and
CEO of the
bank’s parent
company, TaMelanie Dres- coma, Wash.sel, president based Columbia
Banking
and CEO of
System Inc.
Columbia
Columbia
Banking
River
Bank,
System Inc.
based in The
Dalles and with
21 branches in Washington and
Oregon, including six in Central
Oregon, was ordered closed in
January by the Oregon Department of Consumer and Business
Services. The state named the
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
as receiver, which immediately
sold the bank to Columbia State
Bank.
Columbia State Bank is known
as Columbia Bank in Washington
but uses the name Columbia State
Bank in Oregon. It already had a
presence in Oregon, primarily in
Portland and on the coast, before
it acquired Columbia River Bank.
Dressel said the bank plans
to be active in the community
and “wants to be the community
bank” in each of the communities it serves.
See Columbia / B3

You’ve been in business for
27 years. To what do you
attribute the longevity?
It’s really just being strong
on fiscal responsibility and
providing good customer service. This store is a niche market.
We’ve been able to bring local
(goods to our customers). We go
to the (Willamette) Valley twice a
week, to the Eugene-Springfield
area, (for example), and we’re
seen by our customers as a reliable source. We keep it fresh.

Continued from B1
One example is providing gluten-free products, which are becoming more popular with consumers with food allergies.
Nature’s also stresses customer service, said Jessee, 29.
Employees seek out customers’
questions. If they can’t answer
them immediately based on their
knowledge, employees have
plenty of reference materials at
hand.
The store has available a computerized health reference, and
a copy of “Prescription for Nutritional Healing, The A-Z Guide
to Supplements,” sits on a book
stand near one of the two aisles
devoted to vitamins, health products, freeze-dried herbs, organic
herbs and herbal tinctures, such
as Good Mood Tonic, Nervous
System Tonic or Healthy Veins
Tonic.
Gordon Smith died in 2007,
but the store remains a family
business. His former wife, now
Debbie Sloan, owns the store,
and Jessee, a Bend High School
graduate who began working
at Nature’s 12 years ago while
attending Central Oregon Community College, married their
daughter, Andee.
Calen Jessee agreed to discuss
Nature’s General Store with The
Bulletin.

Q:

You mentioned your trips
to the Valley reducing your
carbon footprint. Can you explain that?
There’s
nothing
from
Springfield that comes (directly) to Bend. It goes to Portland
or to a distribution center in Seattle. We take out the middleman.
We’re able to bring it straight
over the mountains. We’re way
ahead of (the freshness date).

A:

Q:
A:

How does making your
own pick-ups factor into
the revenue?
With Nancy’s Yogurt, (one
of the products from the
Springfield Creamery), we can
save $1 a quart, and we can pass
that savings on to our customers.

Q:
A:

Translation

Does that mean you have
your own fleet of trucks?
We have our own truck,
and a part-time employee

Google’s strategic vision,” said
Tim O’Reilly, founder and chief
executive of the technology publisher O’Reilly Media. “It is not
something that anyone else is taking very seriously. But Google understands something about data
that nobody else understands,
and it is willing to make the investments necessary to tackle
these kinds of complex problems
ahead of the market.”
Creating a translation machine
has long been seen as one of the
toughest challenges in artificial
intelligence. For decades, computer scientists tried using a rulesbased approach — teaching the
computer the linguistic rules of
two languages and giving it the
necessary dictionaries.
But in the mid-1990s, researchers began favoring a so-called
statistical approach. They found
that if they fed the computer thousands or millions of passages and

Continued from B1
Its digital books project has
been hung up in court, and the
introduction of its social network,
Buzz, raised privacy fears. The
pattern suggests that it can sometimes misstep when it tries to
challenge business traditions and
cultural conventions.
But Google’s quick rise to the
top echelons of the translation
business is a reminder of what can
happen when Google unleashes
its brute-force computing power
on complex problems.
The network of data centers
that it built for Web searches may
now be, when lashed together, the
world’s largest computer. Google
is using that machine to push the
limits on translation technology.
“Machine translation is one
of the best examples that shows

drives back and forth.

Q:

Nature’s also sells some
fruits, vegetables, beef and
other products grown, raised or
made locally?
That’s the labor-intensive
part. You have to be fairly
understanding that sometimes
it’s going to take some work to
get it ready (for display and sale).
You just do it because you know
customers want it. Even if we
break even on it, we feel good
about it. We’ve kept the dollars
local.

THE BULLETIN • Tuesday, March 9, 2010 B3

ing mixes.) Kombucha Mama,
(which makes fermented tea).

Columbia

Q:
A:

Continued from B1
“I don’t foresee a lot of
changes,” Dressel said of the
bank’s acquisition. “I do think
you’ll see us very active in business lending. We have money
to lend and want to lend.”
As of Dec. 31, 2009, the bank
had roughly $3.2 billion in assets and a total risk-based capital ratio of 16.17 percent, according to the FDIC. According
to FDIC market share data as of
June 30, 2009, the bank was the
11th largest FDIC-insured deposit institution in Washington
and 27th largest in Oregon.
Dressel wouldn’t say whether the bank plans to close any
of the newly acquired Central
Oregon branches, saying the
matter is still under review.
The bank has 85 branches
companywide, primarily in the
Puget Sound region.
Columbia Banking Systems
is on a growth spurt. The week
after it acquired Columbia River Bank, the company acquired
American Marine Bank, on

Have you faced more competition since Whole Foods
Market moved to town?
They’re probably our top
serious competitor. We
share a lot of customers. We
provide a lot of things that they
can’t, (and vice versa). We call
them a lot. They call us. We do
the right thing when it comes
to the customers. I think now
it’s becoming more synergistic. … (Same thing with) Trader
Joe’s. It’s helped us in the long
run. They’re teaching people to
eat naturally. It brought a new
customer to us, the informed
consumer.

A:

Q:
A:

The help you give local producers sometimes goes beyond simply selling the product?
We’ve really been a place
where local producers (can
find some help) to get their product to market. We help coach
them through to get into other
markets. We ask them where
they’re at with the product. (If
they want their company to get
bigger.) You just have to help
them so they don’t get off course.
I really enjoy being that steward for other startups. I don’t do
it for everybody. If it’s not natural or organic, it doesn’t exactly
work for me.

Q:

With some people losing
jobs or facing pay cuts
because of the economic crisis,
have you seen shoppers spend
less? Has it had an effect here?
We’re dealing with local
customers, the ones that
have shopped here 20 years. The
way that we stretch our pricing, we’re competitive. It’s a fair
price. We sell some high-dollar items, but at the same time,
we have bread and oranges and
eggs, (selling for about the same
prices as other grocery stores).

A:

Q:
A:

Can you name any of the
local companies whose
products you have in the store?
The Cravings Place, (which
makes allergen-free bak-

Tim Doran can be
reached at 541-383-0360 or
at tdoran@bendbulletin.com.

their human-generated translations, it could learn to make accurate guesses about how to translate new texts.
It turns out that this technique,
which requires huge amounts of
data and lots of computing horsepower, is right up Google’s alley.
“Our infrastructure is very
well-suited to this,” Vic Gundotra,
a vice president for engineering
at Google, said. “We can take approaches that others can’t even
dream of.”
Automated translation systems are far from perfect, and
even Google’s will not put human
translators out of a job anytime
soon. Experts say it is exceedingly difficult for a computer to break
a sentence into parts, then translate and reassemble them. But
Google’s service is good enough
to convey the essence of a newspaper article, and it has become a
quick source for translations for

millions of people.
“If you need a rough-and-ready
translation, it’s the place to go,”
said Philip Resnik, a machine
translation expert and associate
professor of linguistics at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Because Google’s ads are
ubiquitous online, anything that
makes it easier for people to use
the Web benefits the company.
And the system could lead to interesting new applications. Last
week, the company said it would
use speech recognition to generate captions for English-language
YouTube videos, which could
then be translated into 50 other
languages.
“This technology can make the
language barrier go away,” said
Franz Och, a principal scientist at
Google who leads the company’s
machine translation team. “It
would allow anyone to communicate with anyone else.”

Tanker
Continued from B1
However, Rep. Norm Dicks,
D-Wash., who’s about to become the chairman of the powerful House of Representatives
Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, said the bidding
should be scrapped and the Air
Force should negotiate a contract with Boeing.
“I am confident they can now
utilize their authority to proceed with the procurement of
KC-767 tankers as quickly as
possible, negotiating a contract
that will allow the Air Force to
begin replacing its tanker fleet
rapidly,” Dicks said.
Dicks also suggested that
once the tanker is in production, he’d push to increase production levels from 15 a year to
20 to 25 a year in an effort to replace the current Cold War-era
tankers as rapidly as possible.
Northrop’s decision was the
latest development in the nearly
nine-year effort to replace the
tankers. Northrop-EADS won
an earlier competition, but government auditors overturned

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Bainbridge Island, Wash.
But Dressel said the bank is
not a “serial acquirer” and has
long-term interests in Central
Oregon.
“We look for partners, and
we knew we could build upon
what Columbia River Bank had
built,” Dressel said.
Of the four Oregon banks
regulators have closed since
February 2009, Columbia River
Bank was the largest. It had
total assets of $1.1 billion and
total deposits of $1 billion in
the reporting period before its
closure.
Prineville-based Community
First Bank was the first Central
Oregon bank shut by regulators, in August. It had total assets of $210 million and total
deposits of $178 million. It was
acquired by Nampa, Idahobased Home Federal Bank.
Shares of Columbia Banking Systems closed Monday at
$21.04, down 27 cents, or 1.27
percent, in Nasdaq trading.
Andrew Moore can be
reached at 541-617-7820 or
amoore@bendbulletin.com.

the award after Boeing protested.
The initial contract is for 179
tankers, but the deal eventually
could be worth $100 billion as the
Air Force replaces about 600 tankers in what could be one of the largest Pentagon purchases ever.
In announcing that it wouldn’t
bid, Northrop said the competition
“clearly favors” Boeing’s tanker
and denied the larger NorthropEADS tanker any “competitive
opportunity.”
Wes Bush, Northrop’s chief executive, said in a statement that the
company had a “fiduciary responsibility” to its shareholders. “Investing further resources to submit a
bid would not be acting responsibly,” Bush said, adding that the
company wouldn’t protest the latest request for bids.
Boeing said in a statement that it
remains “100 percent” focused on
the competition and plans to submit a “fully responsive, transparent and competitive” proposal.

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AIG sells unit in effort
to pay down its debt
American
International
Group announced Monday the
sale of one of its major global
insurance units to MetLife for
$15.5 billion, the latest step in
the insurance giantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s quest to
pay down its massive debt to
U.S. taxpayers.
Under the complex agreement, MetLife will pay $6.8 billion in cash and the remainder in
a mix of common and preferred
stock to buy American Life Insurance Co., or Alico, which
operates in more than 50 countries. The cash immediately will
go toward paying down loans
from the Federal Reserve Bank
of New York, and AIG plans to
sell the equity stakes over time
to further reduce its debt.

Toyota defends
its electronics
WASHINGTON â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Toyota,
dogged by millions of recalls
and claims that it still has not
fixed its safety problems, took
its strongest step yet Monday to
silence critics who blame faulty
electronics for runaway cars and
trucks.
Toyota assembled a group of
experts to refute studies by an
Illinois professor who revved
Toyota engines simply by shortcircuiting the wiring. Toyotaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
experts say the experiments
were done under conditions that
would never happen on the road.

Prices
Continued from B1
Global crude oil inventories
have been slowly declining. But
domestic inventories have been
climbing and remain well above
the five-year average for this
time of year.
Gasoline supplies also remain
ample, but prices at the pump
have been rising along with oil
prices. The average gallon of
regular gas rose nearly a penny
to $2.75 on Monday, up from just
over $2.70 a week ago and $2.66
a month ago, according to a report compiled by AAA, the motoristsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; group.
Gasoline prices typically go
up in the spring as refiners retool and switch to more expensive summer blends of gasoline.
Demand and prices were particularly low this winter because
of cold and stormy weather, and
experts say they believe many
drivers will be keen to take to
the highway as spring blooms.
Still, high unemployment is
keeping many commuters off
the road, and putting a cap on
discretionary driving.
In early morning trading
on Monday, oil prices surged
above $82 a barrel, but retreated later to settle at $81.87
a barrel, the highest closing

The automaker maintained its
assertion that simpler mechanical flaws, not electronics, were
to blame.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;There isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a ghost issue out
there,â&#x20AC;? Kristen Tabar, an electronics general manager with
Toyotaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s technical center, told a
news conference at the companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s North American headquarters in Torrance, Calif.

EU may create
IMF-style lender
BERLIN â&#x20AC;&#x201D; European leaders
are in talks to establish a lender
of last resort and limits on credit-default swaps to bolster the
euro area and prevent a repeat
of the Greek financial crisis.
Plans for what may become
the European Monetary Fund
and a German-French push to
curb the use of derivatives to bet
against sovereign debt are to be
ready by June, officials in Berlin
and Brussels said Monday. In
Greece, tax and trash collectors
walked out as a week of strikes
to protest austerity measures
began. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her European
counterparts are shifting from
rhetoric to regulation as they
seek to defend the euro and rally
behind coordinated measures.
Greek Prime Minister George
Papandreou said his countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
fiscal crisis could spread unless
â&#x20AC;&#x153;unprincipled speculatorsâ&#x20AC;? and
â&#x20AC;&#x153;ill- regulatedâ&#x20AC;? financial markets are reined in.
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; From wire reports

price since Jan. 11.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;It remains to be seen whether
we can hold $80, since weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve
failed to hold it five times in the
past five months,â&#x20AC;? said Addison
A. Armstrong, senior director
for market research at Tradition Energy, an energy broker
in Stamford, Conn. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Given the
low level of demand, gasoline
inventories certainly arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t
tightening.â&#x20AC;?
Several international factors,
however, are pushing oil prices
higher. A Nigerian rebel group
recently called off a three-month
cease-fire, and attacks on oil
production operations have resumed. In recent weeks, oil production in Nigeria has fallen by
85,000 barrels a day, more than
4 percent of normal output.
Meanwhile, China is building
storage plants to amass emergency reserves while prices
remain relatively low, raising
expectations that China may
import as much as 15 percent
more oil this year.
There is little expectation that
OPEC, the producersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; cartel, will
alter supplies at its meeting later
this month. The oil minister for
Ecuador, Germanico A. Pinto,
who is the current president of
the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, has
said there is no need for members to cut shipments.

Arguments
heard ahead
of 4th death
penalty trial
By Erin Golden
The Bulletin

A Redmond man sentenced to
death three times in a case that
has gone to the U.S. Supreme
Court was back in Deschutes
County Circuit Court on Monday, as a judge heard arguments
in advance of
his upcoming
fourth death
penalty trial.
After more
than two decades on death
row,
Randy
Lee Guzek, 40,
Randy Lee
is
scheduled
Guzek
to again stand
before a Deschutes County
jury in May. That jury will decide
whether he should be sentenced
to death, spend his life in prison
without parole, or get a life sentence with a chance of parole in
10 years.
Guzek was sentenced to death,
but the Oregon Supreme Court
overturned the sentence the
same year.
On Monday, Lane County Circuit Court Judge Jack Billings,
who is presiding over the case, listened to the first of what is scheduled to be three days of arguments
on a variety of motions filed in the
case over the last several months.
Guzek was 18 years old when
he was convicted in the murders
of Rod and Lois Houser, of Terrebonne, in 1988. Guzek, who had
dated the Housers’ niece, came
to the couple’s home in the earlymorning hours of June 29, 1987,
along with two other men. They
pounded on the door until Rod
Houser, 51, answered, and one
of the men shot him at least 20
times, according to evidence presented at Guzek’s trial.
See Guzek / C6

School officials
going to China
for teacher
exchange deal

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SALEM — State Sen. Chris
Telfer, R-Bend, says she will file
today to run for the seat vacated
by the death of
state Treasurer
Ben Westlund
on Sunday.
Telfer,
60,
who
spoke
with Westlund
a week before
his death, said
her decision is Chris Telfer
spurred by dozens of phone
calls from friends and fellow
lawmakers urging her to run. Because the filing deadline falls today, the certified public accountant said she decided to go for it.
“If I had a month, I might be
sitting around thinking a little
more,” she said. “But there’s no
time.”
The death of Westlund, a longtime Tumalo lawmaker, came after months battling a recurrence
of the lung cancer he’d beaten
once in 2003.
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By Sheila G. Miller
The Bulletin

As the district grapples with a
more than $5 million budget gap
for the 2010-11 school year, three
Bend-La Pine Schools officials
will travel to China this month to
finalize a long-term teacher exchange agreement.
Superintendent Ron Wilkinson, Chief Academic Officer
Vicki Van Buren and Summit
High School Principal Lynn
Baker will fly to China on March
19 and remain there throughout the district’s spring break,
March 22-26.
While there, they will meet
with education officials to formalize a 10-year agreement that
will exchange local teachers
with those in Yangzhou, a city
185 miles northwest of Shanghai, with approximately 4.6 million people.
Wilkinson said sending the
three-person delegation indicates to the government that the
district is taking the teacher exchange seriously.
“We are trying to form an ongoing teacher exchange, and it
will be the final formal negotiations with Yangzhou’s vice-mayor to set up the program for the
long term,” he said. “And we’ve
got to do this face-to-face or it’s
considered disrespectful.”
Spokeswoman Julianne Repman said the round-trip airline
tickets are $1,654 each, and that
$4,962 is the only anticipated
cost to the district.
“We may be buying dinner for
the hosts, one dinner,” Repman
said. “The three people going are
paying for their own meals and
are not taking a per diem.”
See China / C5

Telfer will
file to run
for state
treasurer

Gov. Ted Kulongoski has
ordered flags at all public institutions in Oregon to fly at
half-staff beginning at sunrise today through sunset
on Sunday in honor of state
Treasurer Ben Westlund.
Westlund died of cancer
on Sunday.
Memorial services for
Westlund are planned later
this week in Bend and Salem, according to information from Niswonger-Reynolds Funeral Home.
In Bend, the service will
be at 2 p.m. Friday at The
Riverhouse Convention
Center, on Mt. Washington
Drive, west of the intersection of U.S. Highway 97.
The Salem service will
take place at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Capital House
Chambers, at 900 Court
St. N.E.
Contributions in memoriam may be made to the
Opportunity Foundation of
Central Oregon, P.O. Box
430, Redmond, OR 97756.

Ex-deputy DA
to challenge
Dugan in May
By Erin Golden
The Bulletin

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A former Deschutes County
deputy district attorney has announced that he will challenge
District Attorney Mike Dugan in
the May election — making it the first
contested race
for the position
in more than
15 years.
Patrick Flaherty, an attorney with the Patrick
Bend law firm Flaherty
of Wright, Van
Handel & Flaherty, said Monday he’s running
for the job because he believes
it’s time to have someone new
running the DA’s Office.
He said he’d been considering the move for a while but was
pushed to file for office when
he saw Dugan campaigning for
Measures 66 and 67 in the leadup to the January election.
See Flaherty / C5

C2 Tuesday, March 9, 2010 â&#x20AC;˘ THE BULLETIN

The Barbie doll debuts in 1959
The Associated Press
Today is Tuesday, March 9, the
68th day of 2010. There are 297
days left in the year.
TODAYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S HIGHLIGHT
IN HISTORY
On March 9, 1862, during the
Civil War, the ironclads USS
Monitor and CSS Virginia (formerly USS Merrimac) clashed for
five hours to a draw at Hampton
Roads, Va.
ON THIS DATE
In 1796, the future emperor of
the French, Napoleon Bonaparte, married Josephine de Beauharnais. (The couple later
divorced.)
In 1910, American composer
Samuel Barber, best remembered for his Adagio for Strings,
was born in West Chester, Pa.
In 1916, Mexican raiders led
by Pancho Villa attacked Columbus, N.M., killing 18 Americans.
In 1932, Eamon de Valera was
appointed head of government
of the Irish Free State.
In 1945, during World War II,
U.S. B-29 bombers launched incendiary bomb attacks against
Japan, resulting in an estimated
100,000 deaths.

T O D AY I N H I S T O R Y
In 1954, CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow critically reviewed Wisconsin Sen. Joseph
R. McCarthyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s anti-Communism
campaign on â&#x20AC;&#x153;See It Now.â&#x20AC;?
In 1959, Mattelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Barbie doll,
created by Ruth Handler, made
its public debut at the American
International Toy Fair in New
York.
In 1964, the Supreme Court, in
New York Times Co. v. Sullivan,
ruled that public officials who
charged theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d been libeled by
news reports could not recover
damages unless they proved
actual malice on the part of the
news organization.
In 1977, about a dozen armed
Hanafi Muslims invaded three
buildings in Washington, D.C.,
killing one person and taking
more than 130 hostages. (The
siege ended two days later.)
In 1990, Dr. Antonia Novello
was sworn in as surgeon general, becoming the first woman
and the first Hispanic to hold
the job.
TEN YEARS AGO
John McCain suspended his

presidential campaign, conceding the Republican nomination
to George W. Bush. Bill Bradley
ended his presidential bid, conceding the Democratic nomination to Vice President Al Gore.
FIVE YEARS AGO
Michael Jacksonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s young accuser took the witness stand,
saying he once considered the
pop star being tried for allegedly
molesting him â&#x20AC;&#x153;the coolest guy
in the world.â&#x20AC;? (Jackson was later
acquitted.) Dan Rather signed
off for the last time as principal
anchorman of â&#x20AC;&#x153;The CBS Evening News.â&#x20AC;?
ONE YEAR AGO
President Barack Obama lifted
George W. Bush-era limits on using federal dollars for embryonic
stem cell research.
TODAYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S BIRTHDAYS
Former Sen. James L. Buckley (Conservative-N.Y.) is 87.
Singer-actress Keely Smith is
78. Singer Lloyd Price is 77.
Actress Joyce Van Patten is 76.
Actor-comedian Marty Ingels

N R
POLICE LOG
The Bulletin will update items in
the Police Log when such a request
is received. Any new information,
such as the dismissal of charges or
acquittal, must be verifiable. For more
information, call 541-383-0358.
Bend
Police Department

Unlawful entry â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A vehicle was
reported entered and a stereo
and CDs stolen at 8:50 a.m.
March 5, in the 300 block of
Southeast Reed Market Road.
Theft â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A computer, iPod and
backpack were reported stolen
at 9:58 a.m. March 5, in the 1000
block of Southeast Fourth Street.
Criminal mischief â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Graffiti was
reported at 10 a.m. March 5,
in the 600 block of Northeast
Butler Market Road.
Unlawful entry â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A vehicle was
reported entered and a purse stolen
at 10:21 a.m. March 5, in the 1000
block of Southeast Fourth Street.
Unlawful entry â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A vehicle was
reported entered and GPS and
firearm stolen at 12:16 p.m.
March 5, in the 300 block of
Southeast Reed Market Road.
Unauthorized use â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A vehicle was
reported stolen at 1:14 p.m. March
5, in the 20200 block of Reed Lane.
Criminal mischief â&#x20AC;&#x201D; An act of
criminal mischief was reported
at 1:48 p.m. March 5, in the area
of Northwest First Street and
Northwest Portland Avenue.
Theft â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A theft was reported at
1:49 p.m. March 5, in the 100 block
of Southwest Century Drive.
Burglary â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A burglary was reported
at 4:09 p.m. March 5, in the 2000
block of Northeast Neil Way.
Theft â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A theft was reported
and an arrest made at 5:24 p.m.
March 5, in the 61500 block
of South U.S. Highway 97.
Unlawful entry â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A vehicle was
reported entered at 6:23 p.m.
March 5, in the 700 block of
Northeast Greenwood Avenue.
Theft â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A theft was reported
and an arrest made at 8:33 p.m.
March 5, in the 61500 block
of South U.S. Highway 97.
Vehicle crash â&#x20AC;&#x201D; An accident was
reported at 9:39 p.m. March 5,
in the area of Northwest Oregon
Avenue and Northwest Wall Street.
Unlawful entry â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A vehicle was
reported entered at 11:38 p.m.
March 5, in the 600 block of
Southeast Glencoe Place.
DUII â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Paul Matthew Dillman, 24,
was arrested on suspicion of driving
under the influence of intoxicants at
1:49 a.m. March 6, in the 100 block
of Northwest Newport Avenue.
Theft â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A theft was reported at
2:08 a.m. March 6, in the area of
Northwest Broadway Street and
Northwest Tumalo Avenue.
Burglary â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A burglary was reported
at 2:10 a.m. March 6, in the
20600 block of Redwing Lane.
DUII â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Alicia Raye Boston, 36, was
arrested on suspicion of driving
under the influence of intoxicants
at 2:53 a.m. March 6, in the area
of Northwest Fifth Street and
Northwest Portland Avenue.
Criminal mischief â&#x20AC;&#x201D; An act of
criminal mischief was reported
at 8:46 a.m. March 6, in the 2400
block of Northwest Lolo Drive.
Unlawful entry â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A vehicle was
reported entered and items stolen at
9:38 a.m. March 6, in the 400 block
of Northwest Delaware Avenue.
Unlawful entry â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A vehicle
was reported entered at 11:38
a.m. March 6, in the 63000
block of Corporate Place.
Criminal mischief â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Graffiti
was reported at 11:46 a.m.
March 6, in the 100 block of

Northeast Franklin Avenue.
Theft â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A theft was reported
and an arrest made at 5:41 p.m.
March 6, in the 3100 block of
North U.S. Highway 97.
Theft â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A theft was reported
and an arrest made at 8:13
p.m. March 6, in the 100 block
of Northeast Third Street.
DUII â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Boyd Fleming Brown, 53,
was arrested on suspicion of driving
under the influence of intoxicants
at 11:17 p.m. March 6, in the 61500
block of Brookswood Boulevard.
Criminal mischief â&#x20AC;&#x201D; An act of
criminal mischief was reported
and an arrest made at 2:03 a.m.
March 7, in the 1000 block of
Northwest Lexington Avenue.
Theft â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A theft was reported at 7:27
a.m. March 7, in the 1300 block of
Southeast Reed Market Road.
Unlawful entry â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A vehicle was
reported entered and a backpack
stolen at 2:51 p.m. March 7, in the 100
block of Northwest Gilchrist Avenue.
Criminal mischief â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Damage to
five vehicles was reported at 3:56
p.m. March 7, in the 900 block
of Southeast Third Street.
Burglary â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A bicycle was
reported stolen at 5:42 a.m.
March 8, in the 100 block of
Northeast Greenwood Avenue.
Redmond
Police Department

DUII â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Danny Ray Jonathan
Parsley, 40, was arrested on
suspicion of driving under the
influence of intoxicants at 11:36
p.m. March 5, in the 1700 block
of South U.S. Highway 97.
DUII â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Ginger Lee Brehm, 41, was
arrested on suspicion of driving
under the influence of intoxicants
at 10:46 p.m. March 5, in the 1700
block of North U.S. Highway 97.
Theft â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A theft was reported
and an arrest made at 6:37 p.m.
March 5, in the 900 block of
Southwest Veterans Way.
Theft â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A bicycle was
reported stolen at 6:05 p.m.
March 5, in the 1300 block of
Southwest Obsidian Avenue.
Theft â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A wallet was reported stolen
at 5:06 p.m. March 5, in the 700
block of Northwest Fifth Street.
Theft â&#x20AC;&#x201D; An iPod was reported stolen
at 3:53 p.m. March 5, in the 600
block of Southwest Rimrock Way.
DUII â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Donald Michael Denno, 60,
was arrested on suspicion of driving
under the influence of intoxicants
at 1:25 a.m. March 5, in the 900
block of Southwest Veterans Way.
Unlawful entry â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A vehicle
was reported entered at 4:48
p.m. March 6, in the area of
Southeast Cascade Avenue and
Southeast Railroad Boulevard.
Theft â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A license plate was reported
stolen at 4:07 p.m. March 6, in the
1200 block of Northwest 20th Street.
Criminal mischief â&#x20AC;&#x201D; An act of
criminal mischief was reported
at 9:14 a.m. March 6, in the 600
block of Southwest Rimrock Way.
Robbery â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A robbery was reported
at 2:59 a.m. March 6, in the 3600
block of Southwest 21st Place.
Burglary â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Ladders were reported
stolen at 8:31 a.m. March 7, in the
1400 block of Northeast Third Street.
Criminal mischief â&#x20AC;&#x201D; An act of
criminal mischief was reported
at 2:46 a.m. March 7, in the 400
block of West Antler Avenue.

DUII â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Robin V. Elbek, 50,
was arrested on suspicion of
driving under the influence of
intoxicants at 5:51 p.m. March
5, in the area of Cimarron Drive
and Rodeo Court in Bend.
Theft â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A theft was reported at 3:30
p.m. March 5, in the 70000 block
of Camp Polk Road in Sisters.
Theft â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A theft was reported at
8:26 a.m. March 5, in the 60100
block of Navajo Road in Bend.
Criminal mischief â&#x20AC;&#x201D; An act of
criminal mischief was reported at
6:56 a.m. March 5, in the 17200
block of Gadwall Drive in Bend.
DUII â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Peter Donald Lang, 23,
was arrested on suspicion of
driving under the influence of
intoxicants at 11:54 p.m. March
6, in the area of Butler Market
and Eagle roads in Bend.
DUII â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Christopher Joel Abbott, 25,
was arrested on suspicion of driving
under the influence of intoxicants
at 10:27 p.m. March 6, in the 60400
block of Lakeview Drive in Bend.
Burglary â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A burglary was reported
at 1:38 p.m. March 6, in the 62900
block of Clyde Lane in Bend.
Criminal mischief â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Damage to
a vehicle was reported at 7:34
a.m. March 6, in the 17200
block of Baker Road in Bend.
Criminal mischief â&#x20AC;&#x201D; An act of
criminal mischief was reported at
6:36 a.m. March 6, in the 51600
block of Coach Road in La Pine.
DUII â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Candis Michelle Owens,
37, was arrested on suspicion
of driving under the influence of
intoxicants at 1:46 a.m. March
6, in the area of South U.S.
Highway 97 and Southwest Odem
Medo Road in Redmond.
Theft â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Gasoline was reported
stolen at 3:35 p.m. March 7, in the
1000 block of Rail Way in Sisters.
Burglary â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A burglary was reported
at 12:17 p.m. March 7, in the 66900
block of Fryrear Road in Cloverdale.
Jefferson County
Sheriffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office

Criminal mischief â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Slashed
tires were reported Feb. 23, in
the 6200 block of Northwest
Columbia Drive in Metolius.
Theft â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A theft was reported
at 10 a.m. Feb. 23, in the 1500
block of Northwest Clackamas
Drive in Metolius.
Vehicle crash â&#x20AC;&#x201D; An accident
was reported at 7:50 a.m. Feb.
25, in the area of Forest Service
Road 14 near milepost two.
Theft â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Firewood was reported
stolen at 7 a.m. Feb. 26, in the 200
block of Second Street in Culver.
Burglary â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A burglary was reported
at 12 p.m. Feb. 27, in the 900 block
of Northwest First Street in Madras.
Criminal mischief â&#x20AC;&#x201D; An act of criminal
mischief was reported at 12:42
p.m. March 1, in the 15900 block of
Southwest Culver Highway in Culver.
Burglary â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Musical instruments
were reported stolen March 1, in the
8800 block of Southwest Panorama
Road in Crooked River Ranch.

Oregon State Police

DUII â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Alisa Kay Shuffield, 32, was
arrested on suspicion of driving
under the influence of intoxicants at
3 a.m. March 6, in the area of U.S.
Highway 26 near milepost 26.
Vehicle crash â&#x20AC;&#x201D; An accident was
reported at 1:30 p.m. March 6,
in the area of State Highway
126 near milepost six.
Vehicle crash â&#x20AC;&#x201D; An accident
was reported at 10:05 a.m.
March 5, in the area of U.S.
Highway 20 near milepost 14.
DUII â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Brock Raymond Clark, 34,
was arrested on suspicion of driving
under the influence of intoxicants
at 3:30 p.m. March 5, in the area of
U.S. Highway 97 near milepost 130.
Vehicle crash â&#x20AC;&#x201D; An accident
was reported at 12:43 a.m.
March 6, in the area of U.S.
Highway 20 near milepost 72.
Vehicle crash â&#x20AC;&#x201D; An accident
was reported at 7:20 p.m. March
6, in the area of State Highway
126 near milepost 110.
Vehicle crash â&#x20AC;&#x201D; An accident
was reported at 3:50 p.m. March
7, in the area of Century Drive
and Forest Service Road 400.
DUII â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Robert Montgomery
Hooker III, 54, was arrested on
suspicion of driving under the
influence of intoxicants at 11:30
p.m. March 4, in the area of U.S.
Highway 97 near milepost 115.

A former detective with the
Warm Springs Police Department was sentenced to three
months in prison Monday, for
stealing money from the department, according to a U.S.
Department of Justice news
release.
Gregory A. Stinson, 40, of
Madras, must pay back $4,989
to the Confederated Tribes of
Warm Springs and serve three
years of supervised release after prison. Stinson worked for
the tribesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Police Department
for 13 years and stole money in
April 2007 that was seized as
evidence in a criminal case, according to the news release.
Stinson supervised the Police
Departmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s evidence room at
the time of the theft and took
the money for his personal use,
according to the Department of
Justice.

People can dispose of unwanted prescription medications and over-the-counter
drugs, destroy unneeded personal documents and learn
identity-theft prevention tips at
an event from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
on March 20.
The Deschutes County Sheriffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office and Data Delete are
holding the free event, according to a Sheriffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office news
release.
A county sheriffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s deputy will
be at the event to collect unwanted prescription and overthe-counter drugs. The drug
disposal program is aimed at
keeping medications out of the
environment and away from
drug abusers, children and
animals.
The event will take place in
the Sheriffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office parking lot
at 63333 W. U.S. Highway 20 in
Bend.
The Sheriffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office is asking event participants to bring
nonperishable food to donate to NeighborImpact. A
NeighborImpact representative will collect food items and
answer questions about the
organization.
The event is for residents to
dispose of unwanted medications and shred documents. It
is not for business or company
disposal, according to the news
release.

Democrat meeting
scheduled in Jefferson
The Jefferson County Democrat Central Committee is
scheduled to meet at 6:30 p.m.
March 17, according to a news
release from the committee.
The meeting will be at the Rodriguez Library Annex, at 134
S.E. E St., in Madras. All Democrats are welcome at the meeting. For more information, call
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STEVENSON, Wash. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Two
helicopters from the Coast
Guard and Washington National Guard helped in Mondayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s search for a 24-year-old
Portland woman missing near
Bonneville Dam in Washingtonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Skamania County.
Undersheriff Dave Cox says
no fresh clues were found Monday. He says search efforts will
resume this morning.
Kathrine Huether texted a
friend Thursday afternoon
that she was at a trailhead and
going for a hike. The search
began Friday, after she was reported overdue.
Cox says searchers found
their first clue Sunday when a
searcher found a credit card receipt with Huetherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s name on it
about four miles north of Bonneville Dam in the Table Mountain area.
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after derailment
WILSON CREEK, Wash. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
A rail line that closed in eastern Washington after a 24-car
derailment has reopened.
Burlington Northern Santa
Fe spokesman Gus Melonas
says the line reopened at 5 p.m.
Sunday.
No one was hurt when the
110-car train traveling from
Florence, Minn., to Seattle derailed Saturday morning near
Wilson Creek, about 18 miles
north of Moses Lake. However,
it blocked the single track, used
by about 20 freight and Amtrak
trains daily.
The train was carrying corn,
which was taken to a nearby
grain elevator.
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Faith healers sentenced to
16 months for son’s death
By Abby Haight
The Associated Press

Rick Bowmer / The Associated Press

A sea lion swims in the Columbia River near Bonneville Dam on Monday in North Bonneville, Wash.
After trying other methods to keep sea lions from eating endangered salmon, wildlife officials began
last year issuing death sentences to the most chronic offenders.

Sea lions being euthanized
for eating too many salmon
By Abby Haight
The Associated Press

PORTLAND — Wildlife officials have tried everything
to keep sea lions from eating
endangered salmon, dropping
bombs that explode under water and firing rubber bullets and
bean bags from shotguns and
boats. Now they are resorting
to issuing death sentences to the
most chronic offenders.
A California sea lion last week
became the first salmon predator to be euthanized this year
under a program that has been
denounced by those who say
there are far greater dangers to
salmon — including the series
of hydroelectric dams on the
Columbia.
This is the second year of the
program, which is administered
by wildlife officials in Oregon
and Washington and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration.
Last year, 11 sea lions were
euthanized.
Another
four
were transferred to zoos or
aquariums.
The sea lions represent a
massive headache each year as
chinook salmon begin arriving
at the Bonneville Dam east of
Portland, congregating in large
numbers as they return from the
ocean. Sea lions have become
keenly aware that the dam is a
great spot to feast on salmon,
easy pickings as they wait to go
up the dam’s fish ladders.
“They learn. They come up
here and know it’s a good place
to eat, and sooner or later the
salmon are going to arrive,” said
Robert Stansell, a fisheries biologist with the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers.

Repeat offenders
Officials are tracking 63 additional sea lions listed as repeat
offenders. They are identified by
scars or by numbers that were
branded on them by researchers.
“To get on that list, we have to
have observed them as distinct
individuals,” said Jessica Sall,
spokeswoman for the Oregon
Department of Fish and Wildlife.
“They are not responding to hazing, and they’re eating chinook
salmon.”
Sea lions have gobbled salmon

“They are not
responding
to hazing, and
they’re eating
chinook salmon.”
— Jessica Sall, spokeswoman
for the Oregon Department
of Fish and Wildlife
forever. But their numbers have
soared in recent years, as has the
number of those cruising upriver
to dine on salmon at Bonneville
Dam. Frustrations peaked, especially among fishermen who
have watched sea lions snatch
salmon right out of their gill
nets.
The Bonneville crowd of hefty
mammals — they can reach
more than 600 pounds and 8 feet
in length — have become the
enemy of commercial and sport
fisherman, who are allowed to
catch and keep hatchery-raised
fish, and a concern for conservationists trying to restore migratory runs, since sea lions don’t
distinguish between hatchery
and wild fish.
At least three of the upper Columbia River spring salmon runs
that pass through the dam are
listed as threatened under the
Endangered Species Act, most
significantly the spring chinook
salmon run.
The sea lions’ growing numbers forced state, federal and tribal agencies to intensify efforts to
protect the region’s multibilliondollar salmon recovery program.
The sea lions are protected by
a 1972 federal law, but an amendment leaves open the possibility that some can be captured
or killed if the states request it.
Oregon and Washington did in
2006 with the support of Indian
tribes and sport and commercial
fishing groups.
Two years ago, the National
Marine Fisheries Service authorized Oregon and Washington
officials to first attempt to catch
the sea lions that arrive at the
base of Bonneville Dam and hold
them 48 hours to see whether an

aquarium, zoo or similar facility
will take them.
Otherwise, they could be euthanized, along with those that
avoid trapping. Only California
sea lions can be destroyed. Stellar sea lions cannot be killed because they are protected under
the Endangered Species Act.
Supporters say the program
works. The numbers of sea lions
at the dam have dropped, although the 4,489 salmon they ate
last year was the highest since
tracking began in 2002.
Critics, led by the Humane
Society of the United States, say
that a far greater danger to salmon are hydroelectric dams on the
Columbia, which are an obstacle
to salmon both as they head out
to sea and when they return from
the ocean to spawn.
The Humane Society also says
fishermen catch three times as
many salmon as sea lions eat.

Collecting data
The Columbia River InterTribal Fish Commission this
year has begun tracking the sea
lions’ movements with acoustic transmitters and cameras
placed along the river. Instead of
just reacting to the sea lions, the
data might help authorities plan
a more successful campaign, a
fisheries scientist says.
“All of the counts that you
hear, all of the impact on salmon,
is based on what they can see
from the dam,” said Doug Hatch,
of the inter-tribal commission.
“That doesn’t account for the
whole 150 river miles below the
dam.”
The frustration comes as experts predict the largest spring
chinook run since 1938. Thanks
to good ocean conditions for
young salmon, an expected
470,000 fish will head up the
Columbia River, compared to
169,300 in 2009.
The primary weapon against
the sea lions still remains hazing,
but even that has limitations.
“The problem is, as soon as
the boats go around the corner,
they’re right back,” Stansell said.
“Some of the animals that have
been there a long time don’t even
move when they get hit in the
back with a rubber bullet. They
just keep eating their fish.”

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Deputy slightly hurt
in traffic accident
BEAVERTON — A Washington County sheriff’s deputy
received minor injuries in a traffic accident Monday morning in
Beaverton.
Sheriff’s spokesman Sgt. David Thompson says Deputy Dan
Muehlek was responding to an
alarm at a business overnight
when his patrol car was struck
by a minivan. He tells The Oregonian that Muehlek received
bumps and bruises and was released after being treated at a
hospital.
Thompson says the driver of
the minivan was not injured and
was not cited.

AG hires domestic
violence prosecutor
SALEM — Oregon Attorney
General John Kroger has hired a
domestic violence prosecutor.
Kroger says in a news release
Monday that Erin Greenawald
will fill a new position at the
state’s Department of Justice.
She has worked since 1999 as a
domestic violence prosecutor,
first in Marion County and then
in Yamhill County.

Kroger says there is an overwhelming need to combat domestic violence in the state. He
says there were at least 22 domestic violence homicides in Oregon last year and nine so far in
2010.

Phony officer stopped
car, Aurora police say
AURORA — Aurora police are
looking for a man who posed as
a police officer and pulled over a
car.
Officers say the impersonator
was driving a dark-colored car
and used a flashing blue light to
signal the driver to stop Saturday
night. Officer Scott Reilly says
the phony officer asked to see the
man’s drivers license, registration and insurance information,
but returned the documents and
left after the driver questioned
his credentials.
The Oregonian says the impostor was not wearing any
patches or badge, and his car
had no markings or license plate.
Aurora police say they don’t
know his motive for stopping the
car. Reilly says officers have no
reason to suspect he’s the same
man who posed as a police employee and abducted two women

in Portland on Thursday. Both
women escaped.

Woodburn police: man
cut at wedding party
WOODBURN — Woodburn
police say a man is in critical
condition after an altercation at
a wedding party.
Police were called to a residence early Sunday on a report
of an armed man. They found
no one had been shot, but that
26-year-old Jose Orozco had
been cut in the lower torso.
He was airlifted to a Portland
hospital.
Officers from six agencies surrounded the home after learning
10 people were still inside. Woodburn police say they were able to
persuade some to come outside,
but others remained. A tactical
unit then entered the home and
removed five people.
Police say several people arrived at the residence during
a wedding party and at least
two allegedly forced their way
in. Two men were arrested for
investigation of burglary, but
not for injuring Orozco. Officers continue to investigate the
incident.
— From wire reports

OREGON CITY — The judge
who sentenced an Oregon couple to prison Monday for the
death of their son says members
of their church must quit relying on faith healing when their
children’s lives are at stake.
“The fact is, too many children have died unnecessarily —
a graveyard full,” Judge Steven
Maurer said. “This has to stop.”
Maurer spoke in a quiet, unemotional voice as he led up to
his conclusion: Jeffrey and Marci Beagley each should serve
16 months in prison. Members of the Followers of Christ
church who packed the courtroom sobbed.
The Beagleys were earlier
convicted of criminally negligent homicide in the June 2008
death of their 16-year-old son,
Neil, of complications from a
congenital urinary tract blockage. The condition normally is
easily treated.
Members of their church
avoid most medical care and
instead rely on rituals such as
anointing sick people with oil
and laying hands on them.
In ordering prison terms,
Maurer reflected changes made
in Oregon law a decade ago stipulating that freedom of religious
practices is not an excuse to shun
medical treatment for a dangerously ill child. The changes were
a result of the deaths of children
in Followers of Christ families.
The church’s small cemetery
near the end of the Oregon Trail
includes row after row of headstones marking the graves of
children.

Doug Beghtel / The Oregonian

Jeffrey and Marci Beagley are taken into custody and led out of
the courtroom Monday in the Clackamas County Courthouse in
Oregon City after they were sentenced to 16 months in prison for
criminally negligent homicide in the death of their 16-year-old son.
Maurer said the community
is tolerant of the church, and he
emphasized the sentences were
not an indictment of it.
“We must keep in mind that
this crime was one in which a
child died,” Maurer said. “This
was a situation where the community was counting on his parents to understand the boundaries of their faith.”
The Beagleys’ attorneys said
they would appeal.
“This case is not a referendum on religion,” defense attorney Wayne Mackeson said. “To
me, it’s a battle in a larger war
— seeing that justice is done.”
Neil Beagley was described
as a bright, confident boy who
loved his church and fixing cars.
He became ill as the blockage
trapped toxic waste in his body.

His parents testified they
thought he had a cold or the flu.
Medical experts say the boy’s
kidneys were destroyed and his
organs shut down.
Just months earlier, the
Beagleys’
granddaughter,
15-month-old Ava Worthington, died from pneumonia and
a blood infection that also
could have been treated. Her
parents, Raylene and Carl
Brent Worthington, were acquitted of manslaughter. Carl
Brent Worthington served
two months in jail for criminal
mistreatment.
They were in the courtroom
Monday. Before the sentencing,
Marci Beagley dabbed at her
eyes as she huddled with Raylene Worthington and several
other women.
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Westlund was an
Oregon original

B

en Westlund was one of Oregon’s most engaging public
figures, a man whose stamp on Central Oregon will long
outlive him. Westlund died Sunday morning after a long

fight against lung cancer.
If there is a monument to Westlund, it is surely OSU-Cascades Campus in Bend. Though it took the efforts
of dozens, if not hundreds, of people
to bring the capstone campus here, it
survived its first few years thanks in
large part to Westlund and his tireless
work in the state Legislature. Every
student at OSU-Cascades owes him a
debt.
Westlund’s career in politics was
unusual. He was a political peripatetic, a Republican-turned-independentturned-Democrat who served in the
House, the Senate, ran for the governor’s office and, in 2008, was elected
state treasurer. In this last capacity,
he served admirably, even while battling the recurrence of cancer that ultimately claimed his life.
Westlund’s temporary successor
will be appointed by Gov. Ted Kulongoski in the coming days, and voters
will elect a permanent replacement
in November. We hope the governor
chooses someone who will agree in
advance not to run this fall so that Oregonians may choose Westlund’s successor from candidates who enter the
race on equal terms.
Meanwhile, although his political
shifts made for good news stories,
we’ll remember Ben Westlund most
for who he was.
It’s hard to imagine a more gregarious individual, a trait that was as
natural to him as the color of his eyes.
Westlund never met a stranger he
didn’t like. He had a hail-fellow-wellmet air about him, and he was almost
never at a loss for words, no matter
how complex the subject. Just ask
anyone who discussed health care reform with him in recent years.
That gregariousness and a strong

Although his political
shifts made for good news
stories, we’ll remember
Ben Westlund most for
who he was. It’s hard
to imagine a more
gregarious individual, a
trait that was as natural
to him as the color of his
eyes. Westlund never met
a stranger he didn’t like.
sense of humor made him the perfect keynote speaker at a small high
school graduation in 2001, where, he
clearly understood, the usual platitudes simply would not do. Instead,
Westlund sat down among the handful of graduates and read them a
book by Dr. Seuss, “Oh, The Places
You’ll Go.” It was funny, it was fitting
and it was memorable in the most
pleasant of ways. And it was vintage
Westlund.
If there’s such a thing as a political
personality, Westlund had it in spades.
There was that gregariousness. There
was also an ability to associate names
and seldom-seen faces that’s the hallmark of others in his field. And there
was one of the most important features of many really good politicians,
a thick skin that allowed him to take
criticism and still smile at his critics.
He will be missed.

Be honest with voters
about Bend tax choice

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ast Wednesday, the city of Bend
stared right in the face of public
skepticism about new taxes.
The city did a poll of Bend voters to
measure support for different options
for funding public safety. Most surveyed voters said they were unwilling
to pay more taxes to avoid cuts.
That’s not what city staff wanted
to hear. Bend faces a financial cliff.
Even by cutting its work force by
18 percent, it anticipates a shortfall of
$21 million in the general fund over
the next six years. Without a change,
it’s going to be hard to keep up levels
for police and fire protection.
Majorities of surveyed voters were
not inclined to support any option to
increase taxes. They didn’t like a proposal to increase taxes by 41 cents per
thousand of assessed property value
and annex the city fire department
to the rural fire district. Voters didn’t
like a similar five-year local option
levy for police and fire. Trying another approach, the city had pollsters

ask voters about a general obligation
bond for sewer, water and street improvements. Opposition was strong
for that, too.
There was majority support,
though, for a tax neutral proposal to
take the 27 cents per thousand of assessed value that voters are paying
now for downtown urban renewal and
reauthorize it in two years — when it
expires — for public safety.
Councilor Jeff Eager made an
important point about the voter response to that option. If it had been
more clear to voters they were facing
the choice between continuing the tax
and a tax cut, the polled voters would
have been less likely to support it.
Councilors and city staff wouldn’t
be much good at their jobs if they didn’t
know how to make what they’re selling palatable to the public. But when
the city does decide what it wants to
do about funding for public safety, it
should be nothing less than honest
with voters about the choice they face.

My Nickel’s Worth
Union demands
A recent issue of The Bulletin stated
teachers have filed a grievance protesting sick leave policy. This is a shining
example of state workers and their
unions making ridiculous demands on
the taxpayer.
The recent passage of tax measures
that failed in all Eastern Oregon counties, but passed with the support of
counties with the most state employees, is another sign of out-of-control
public employees and their unions.
They already have an excessively liberal retirement system. After 30 years
of employment, many are entitled to
retirement at full pay. By comparison, a member of the armed forces
who serves 30 years is only entitled to
75 percent of his base pay. Other pay
benefits he/she has during service time
are not included in retirement pay.
It is past time for government to
tighten its belt, reform PERS, eliminate many liberal programs and stop
threatening to throw our kids under
the bus every time a tax increase measure arises.
Jack Warden
Redmond

ODOT bullies
Bullies win. Despite concerns voiced
by the numerous emergency response
groups, Jefferson County community,
Crooked River Ranch association officials and concerned CRR residents,
ODOT announced the closure of the
Wimp Way access to Highway 97 effective Feb. 2. They mention the fact
that the newly installed gates could
be opened in an emergency. But how
much valuable time could be lost at
someone’s expense? It will be just
a short matter of time before a seri-

ous accident or fatality occur due to
the increased traffic flow placed on
the intersection of Lower Bridge and
Highway 97, as people try to squeeze
out onto Highway 97 in order to travel
north, dodging oncoming traffic from
the north as well as traffic turning onto
Lower Bridge from the south.
The officials who have made these
decisions should play this game of
Russian roulette a few times in order
to feel the excitement! I would guess
that it may take a major lawsuit following a traffic accident or fatality to
reopen this issue, and hopefully hold
the person accountable for this ill fated
move. Imagine the increased congestion when the new development proceeds at the Old Lower Bridge mine
site. I hope ODOT is proud of itself, as
it has won this round. I just hope it is
not at the cost of human life. This is not
a personal attack on anyone or group
of individuals, but rather a statement
regarding the system’s lack of ability to
look at the total picture!
Dennis Barker
Crooked River Ranch

Bad analogy
On Feb. 11, The Bulletin stated that
allowing a child the opportunity to
walk to a school as part of the magnet
school lottery process is like giving
somebody a better shot at winning the
Oregon Lottery. This is far from a just
analysis. Let’s look at the facts associated with the magnet school lottery.
The facts are that three older schools
that used to serve their neighborhood
children were turned into magnet
schools. The children in magnet school
neighborhoods were then, most often,
either put on a bus or taken by their
parents to elementary schools miles
away. This raised questions that Bend-

La Pine Schools made a value-based
decision on. Here are some of the questions that were evaluated. Should we
really punish a child just because they
live by a magnet school zone? Should
we make a child that could walk to
school take a bus while similar children
in a different neighborhood can walk
to school with their friends? Do the
citizens of Bend want our children sitting in buses and cars or having more
time to learn and play? Is promoting a
healthy neighborhood something this
town supports? Is it really the position
of The Bulletin that none of these issues
should be taken into account?
Is the state Lottery really a good
analogy for something that affects our
children?
Mike Marshall
Bend

Teacher perks
If I am reincarnated, I want to come
back as a teacher, for two reasons. The
first is that it is a noble and important
profession. It probably has the biggest
influence on the success or failure of
our young people, next to parenting.
The second reason is that there is a lot
of time off. According to what I read, our
teachers work only 1,520 hours a year.
Using a 40 hour workweek, that is only
38 weeks a year. In addition they can
take 80 hours of paid sick time, which
accumulates, and 24 hours in paid personal time. Sounds great doesn’t it?
We taxpayers foot the bill, but the
biggest impact is on the students. Our
students have a minimal length school
year anyway, and then might have substitute teachers up to 104 hours during
that already shortened year. What am I
missing here?
Barbara Doherty
Bend

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n 1776, Thomas Jefferson listed in
his writing of the Declaration of Independence the following grievances against Britain, and specifically King
George III:
Grievance 12: “He (King George III)
has affected to render the military independent of and superior to the civil
power.”
Grievance 18: “For depriving us in
many cases of the benefits of trial by
jury.”
Grievance 19: “For transporting us
beyond seas to be tried for pretended
offenses.”
One of the major grievances our
Founding Fathers had against the British, grievances that eventually led to the
American Revolution, was the practice

of arresting American colonists, transporting them to Halifax, Nova Scotia,
Canada, to be tried in an Admiralty
Court, a military rather than a civil
court, denying them a trial by jury. As
a result of the British abuse of the right
to a fair, jury trial, the U.S. Constitution
contains a number of items safeguarding fair, jury trials in this country:
Article 1, Section 9, Clause 2: “The
privilege of habeas corpus shall not be
suspended unless in cases of rebellion
or invasion the public safety may require it.”
Article 3, Section 2, Clause 3: “The
trial of all crimes shall be by jury and
such trials shall be held in the state
where the said crime shall have been
committed.”
Amendment 6: “In all criminal prosecutions the accused shall enjoy the

IN MY VIEW
right to a speedy and public trial by
an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been
committed.”
Amendment 14: “Nor shall any state
deprive any person of life, liberty, or
property without due process of law nor
deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protections of the laws.”
During the Civil War (1864) Lamdin
P. Milligan, a northern Confederate
sympathizer, was arrested by Union
troops in Huntington, Ind., then tried
and convicted of treason by a military
court and sentenced to be hanged.
In 1866, following the end of the war,
the Supreme Court heard arguments in
the Milligan case. The court was con-

fronted with a basic concept of American liberty, whether or not a military
court had the legal, constitutional right
and power to try a civilian during war
time.
The court decided that, since martial
law had not been declared in Indiana
and the civil courts were open and operating in that state, a military tribunal
did not have the legal authority to try a
civilian even in times of war or rebellion. Milligan had been denied his habeas corpus rights as well as his right to
a trial by an impartial jury.
Trial by jury is so essential to our
concept of a free and democratic society that it is not only mentioned in the
Declaration of Independence, but is
guaranteed in the original Constitution
as well as in the Bill of Rights and the
14th Amendment. Any American who

sincerely believes in the Constitution
should not be hasty in succumbing to
the hysteria presently demanding that
the Christmas airline bomber be tried
by a military court, an act that would be
illegal and unconstitutional. In essence,
we would be turning our personal right
to a fair trial over to the military, the
second step on a very slippery slope, the
first step being the existence of a standing army, which, at present, is highly
privatized and profit oriented.
Those who cherish their liberties,
their individual rights, guaranteed by
the Constitution, should seriously consider the possible future loss of those
rights if we as a nation turn the responsibility of our civilian courts over to
military tribunals.
Dick Phay lives in Prineville.

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Marie Myrtle Cornwall, of
Redmond
April 30, 1937 - March 5, 2010
Arrangements:
Prineville Funeral Home,
541-447-6459.
Services:
Memorial Services will be
held on Friday, March 12,
2010 at 1:00 p.m. at the
Redmond Chapel of the
Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-Day Saints. Bishop
Mitch Wilcox will officiate.

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Evelyn (Evie)
Courlette Allen

Lois P. Bloom

August 9, 1912 - March 3, 2010

Lois
P.
Bloom,
born
December 18, 1933, died
Sunday, January 17, 2010,
just after celebrating her 76th
birthday. Lois was preceded
in death by her husband,
Leroy V. Bloom; both parents,
Alex
and
Henrietta
Breitgham;
a
brother
and sister as
infants; and
two
older
brothers,
Leroy
Breitgham
Lois P. Bloom in
World
War II and Harold Breitgham.
She is survived by three
sisters: Carolyn Doucette of
Yakima, Washington; Dorothy
Connell of Portland, OR; and
Sharon
Schonewell
of
Yakima,
WA;
and
one
brother, Virgil Breitgham,
also of Yakima, WA; her two
children, Lowell Bloom of
Yakima, WA, and Laurie
(Sunny) Hisel of Bend, OR;
six grandchildren and three
great-grandchildren.
Lois was born and raised in
Yakima, WA, where she
graduated from Davis High
School in 1951. After moving
to Portland, OR, she met
Leroy Bloom and married
him on December 22, 1963.
She devoted her life to others,
working at home to provide
the best for her husband and
children.
She
enjoyed
gardening, bowling, card and
other games.
Mom, you loved us so much
and will be remembered for
how you taught us to think of
the little things, how to get
the bacon just right, how to
decorate a home, bake a cake,
hug real big. Your family and
friends will miss your smile,
your jokes, and how you
could reach out to those who
needed to be accepted for
who they were at the moment.
A private memorial will be
held at a later date.

Evelyn
(Evie)
Courlette
Allen, 97, passed from this life
on the evening of Wednesday,
Evelyn (Evie) Courlette Allen,
at Gibson Creek Retirement
Residence in
Salem,
Oregon
surrounded
by
loving
members of
her family.
Evelyn was
born
in
Fargo, North
Evelyn Allen
Dakota
on
August 9, 1912, and was the
youngest of six children born
to Henry and Ingeborg
Hanson. Evelyn moved with
her family to Bend, Oregon
when she was eleven years
old, when the population
there was only 500, and she
saw many changes as Bend
grew in size. Her parents
passed away within a year of
each other when she was only
in her mid-teens.
She
married the love of her life,
Doran Allen, when she was
20, and they had six children.
Evelyn dedicated her early
years to providing a warm
and loving home for her
husband and children. Doran
died suddenly in 1969, when
Evelyn was 57. Several years
later, Evelyn met a wonderful
man, Leonard Langliers, who
shared her life until his death
in 1996, the same year both of
her beloved sons passed
away. With Leonard, Evelyn
began a second life filled with
fun that included joining
many
social
clubs
and
activities, bowling, dancing,
traveling, and learning to
drive at the age of 61. She
loved life, and lived with joy
and enthusiasm. In 2002,
Evelyn moved to Salem to be
closer to her surviving family
living in the Valley. She had
a life-long deep faith, and was
a member of St. Francis of
Assisi Catholic Church in
Bend.
Evelyn dearly loved her
grandchildren
and
great-grandchildren, having a
special relationship with each
one, and was in turn deeply
loved by them. All who knew
her, even if briefly, sensed her
loving, caring, and accepting
nature. In recent years, she
counted among her many
friends the kind staff and
residents at Gibson Creek,
where she spent the final 6 ½
years of her life. She was
greatly
loved,
and
her
presence in this world will be
missed by many people.
Evelyn was preceded in
death by her husband, Doran
L. Allen; her five brothers,
Oscar, Harold, Stan, Walt,
and Alph Hanson and all of
their wives; and her two sons,
Ron (survived by daughter
in-law Carolyn), and Dick
Allen. She is survived by her
four
daughters,
Jeanne
Molina and husband, Lino of
Vancouver, WA; Courlette
Swensen and husband, Dick,
and Sandra Tarter and
husband, Hank, both families
of Keizer, OR; Ann Memory
of Portland, OR; and 14
grandchildren, and 12 great
grandchildren.
There will be a celebration
of Evelyn's life at 1:00 p.m. on
Saturday, March 20, 2010 at
Keizer
Funeral
Chapel.
Interment will be at Pilot
Butte Cemetery in Bend.
Memorials may be made to
the
Willamette
Valley
Hospice, 1015 3rd Street NW,
Salem, OR 97304 or donate
online at www.wvh.org.

Where Buyers
And Sellers Meet

H
HEALTH

Dec. 18, 1933 - Jan. 17, 2010

Flaherty
Continued from C1
Flaherty said he’s concerned
about the office getting too
political.
“I think we need a district
attorney who’s got the knowledge, skill and experience to
lead from inside the courtroom,
prosecuting cases, and outside
the courtroom, working with
law enforcement,” he said.
“I’m willing and able to get the
job done with the resources
available.”
Flaherty, 53, grew up in the
Portland area and received his
undergraduate and law degrees
at the University of Oregon. He
worked as a judicial clerk in
Clackamas County and as a
prosecutor in Lincoln County
before moving to Bend to work
at the Deschutes County District Attorney’s Office in 1992.
In 1995, Flaherty was promoted to chief deputy district
attorney and remained in that
position until he left the office
in 2001 to join his wife in a private law firm.

CHICAGO — Bruce Graham, the hard-driving architect of the Willis Tower, once
the world’s
tallest building, and the
John Hancock Center, the Xbraced giant
that became
a symbol of
C h i c a g o ’s Bruce
i ndu s t r i a l Graham
might, died
Saturday at
his home in Hobe Sound, Fla.
He was 84 years old. The
cause of death was complications from Alzheimer’s disease, said his son George.
At the peak of his influence, from the 1960s through
the 1980s, Graham was the
top man at Chicago’s biggest
architectural firm, Skidmore,
Owings & Merrill.
Besides the Willis (originally Sears) Tower and the
Hancock
Center,
which
bracket Chicago’s skyline like
enormous black parentheses,
Graham played a major role
in designing such landmark
structures as the Inland Steel
Building and the 1986 expansion of McCormick Place.
Reviewing Sears Tower
in 1974, the late Chicago Tribune architecture critic Paul
Gapp called the skyscraper
“a building whose exterior
profiles are a bold, vital and
exciting departure from orthodox mediocrity.”

Flaherty said he takes issue
with the way Dugan has handled some cases during his 23
years in office. As an example,
he pointed to the case of David
Black, who was convicted of
manslaughter in 2004 in connection with a drag racing incident in which two teenage girls
died.
“Cases like David Black show
the district attorney believes
his duty is to merely convict
people, not seek justice,” Flaherty said. “It’s time for a district attorney that understands
what prosecutorial discretion
means.”
The district attorney is a nonpartisan office, and the filing
deadline for the office is today
at 5 p.m. If one candidate wins
a majority of votes in the May
primary election, he or she will
win the seat. If there are multiple candidates on the May
ballot, the top two vote-getters
will move on to the November
election.

China
Continued from C1
Repman said traditionally
the Chinese government pays
for all travel within the country,
as well as meals and lodging.
“In some situations they may
pay up front and in other situations they may pay us back,” she
said.
Wilkinson said he and Baker
will also bring their wives on
the trip, although they will pay
their own way.
Government officials will pay
for the delegation’s four-night
stay in Yangzhou, and Repman
said it’s likely the government
will also pay for the group’s additional expenses in Beijing and
Shanghai, where Wilkinson
said the group will also spend
time.
The delegation will meet with
the mayor and the vice-mayor of
Yangzhou, which Repman said
is equivalent to meeting with
the state governor and deputy
governor. According to Sisters
High School Mandarin teacher
Dave Perkins, face-to-face communication is very important in
Chinese culture.
“The Chinese are very big on
relationships, they want to see
you and touch hands with you
and not just sign a paper with
someone who is 10,000 miles
away,” he said. “It definitely
means a lot and shows a lot of
earnestness if people got on an
airplane and flew over.”
The trip comes as district officials are working to close a
more than $5 million budget gap
for the 2010-11 school year. District officials have said they’ll

Telfer
Continued from C1
Had it occurred three days
later, leadership of the major
political parties would have selected nominees for the May 18
primary.
Instead, several candidates,
including Democrats and Republicans, are expected to file
for the primary election by today’s 5 p.m. deadline. Already,
retiring Sen. Rick Metsger, DWelches, has filed on the Democratic side.
Until the seat is filled in the
November general election, an
interim treasurer, selected by
Gov. Ted Kulongoski, will hold
the position.
Telfer’s entry is notable because she successfully ran for
Westlund’s old Senate seat when
he left it to run for treasurer rather than for re-election. And like
Westlund, a Democrat who was
a former Republican, she has
changed parties. The longtime
Democrat changed her registration to Republican in 2007, while
serving on the Bend City Council. Asked her greatest similarity to Westlund, she said, “I think
the thing we have in common is
we are friendly people, we listen
to all different perspectives.”
However, she said she would
try to be more active than Westlund on issues such as helping
Oregon businesses and cutting the state’s level of bonded

ask teachers and staff to make
concessions and likely reduce
funding to textbooks, technology and other budget items.
Repman said the travel costs
will come from the administrative travel fund. The fund includes about $600 for each fulltime administrator and provides
funding for staff development,
training and conferences, Repman said.
While Wilkinson said he is
looking to cut costs around the
district, he believes the relationship with Yangzhou is important to helping the district be
globally competitive.
“I think our focus, in terms
of offering a world-class education, this is an important
piece,” Wilkinson said. “We’ve
said through the entire budget
process that we don’t want to
lose focus on what’s important.
… This will have a long-term
impact.”
Summit High School began
offering Mandarin language
and culture classes in fall 2008,
when Andrew Wang arrived at
the high school. For the 2009-10
school year, MaryKatie Wang
joined the Summit faculty to
take over Andrew Wang’s position. And in February, High
Desert Middle School teacher
Katie Ford traveled to Yangzhou
to teach conversational English.
“What I’ve been hearing from
Katie is that there is tremendous
value” in teaching internationally, Wilkinson said. “We’re taking
one more step in understanding
international education.”
Sheila G. Miller can be
reached at 541-617-7831 or
at smiller@bendbulletin.com.

indebtedness.
“I just think I’ve got a skill set
that’s needed for that position,”
she said. “I think as a CPA I have
something to offer.”
She said that running for
higher office just over a year
after she took the job would be
a natural progression and would
allow her to help more people.
“I’m still going to serve my
constituents and Oregonians,”
she said. “I just think you hear
a call and you answer the call,
and if the state’s in need of something and I have something to
offer, I’m going to jump in and
offer it.”
The treasurer’s post has not
been held by a Republican since
1993. However, many political
analysts are predicting Republicans to fare well in the 2010 election cycle.
Kulongoski is expected to
announce today his choice
to serve as interim treasurer,
which would give that person
a leg up in the race to serve out
Westlund’s term. On Monday
night, two names batted about
in Democratic circles included
Sen. Richard Devlin, D-Tualatin, and former state Rep. Greg
MacPherson, D-Lake Oswego. A past ally of Kulongoski,
MacPherson lost to John Kroger
in the 2008 Democratic primary
for state attorney general.
Nick Budnick can be
reached at 503-566-2839 or
at nbudnick@bendbulletin.com.

Erin Golden can be
reached at 541-617-7837 or
at egolden@bendbulletin.com.

Colorado Department of Transportation crew members watch the mountain for more falling rocks
Monday as others drill holes to set explosives in boulders on Interstate 70 near Glenwood Springs,
Colo., after an overnight slide deposited large rocks and hit a bridge, closing a 17-mile stretch of the
road. I-70 is the major route connecting Denver to the West Coast and carries 25,000 drivers daily.

Guzek
Continued from C1
Guzek chased Lois Houser,
49, up a flight of stairs, shooting
her twice as she ran and then a
third time as she tried to hide in
a closet. The men then attempted
to make the deaths look like a
ritual murder by stabbing Lois
Houser and putting the knife and
an open Bible in her husband’s
hands.
In 1991 and 1997, two new juries both found that he should receive the death penalty, but both
decisions were reversed because
of issues about evidence presented or blocked from the trials.
The case went all the way to
the U.S. Supreme Court, which
in 2005 overturned an Oregon
Supreme Court ruling that evidence about Guzek not being
present at the Housers’ home at
the time of the murders should
have been allowed in the third
sentencing trial.
Recent motions filed in the
case range from challenges to
Oregon’s death penalty to a request to have the trial held outside Deschutes County to an attempt to get one of the defense

attorneys removed because prosecutors believe he suffers from a
sleep disorder.
Guzek wore a Deschutes
County Jail jumpsuit, handcuffs
and a stun belt as he sat quietly in court on Monday. Three
prison guards and two sheriff’s
deputies watched over him during the court proceedings.
Billings threw out the motion about the attorney and then
spent most of Monday listening
to an expert witness called by
the defense to testify about the
behavior of death penalty jurors
and the likelihood of those jurors
to sentence a defendant to death
in the “penalty phase” of a trial
— the type of trial scheduled for
Guzek.
Dr. Wanda Foglia, a professor at Rowan University in
New Jersey, said her research
has found that many jurors on
capital cases decide whether a
defendant should get the death
penalty before the trial reaches
the sentencing phase. She said
she has not researched cases like
Guzek’s, where a defendant has
been convicted and sentenced to
death several times, but said she
believes jurors might be more
inclined to opt for the death pen-

alty than life in prison because
of the history of the case.
“(Jurors are) going to see the
judge as the authority in the
room, and they’re going to assume, ‘OK, the judge is telling
us he must be guilty,’” Foglia
said. “They’re going to hear evidence of guilt and think, ‘OK, he
must be deserving of the death
penalty.’”
Billings said he might consider
Foglia’s testimony as he makes
decisions about jury questionnaires and other matters.
Guzek’s accomplices in the
murders, James Michael Wilson
and Donald Ross Cathey, pleaded
guilty to aggravated murder and
agreed to testify against Guzek
to avoid the death penalty. Both
men are serving life sentences in
state prison.
If Guzek is sentenced to death
for a fourth time and the punishment is carried out, he would be
the first person executed in Oregon since 1997.
Hearings on the matter are
scheduled to resume in court this
morning.
Erin Golden can be
reached at 541-617-7837 or
at egolden@bendbulletin.com.

on’t get me wrong. I love watching the fast guys go fast. The elite
road national championships
present an exceptional opportunity to be
wowed by some of the nation’s top-tier
men and women as well as up-and-coming young riders as they go at it for U.S.
cycling supremacy.
But for most riders, even the really
good weekend-warrior types, participating in a championship race at that level
is a bit out of our league. We have jobs,
we have families, and our wattage numbers aren’t popping off the charts. And

CLARK

maybe, we’re just old(er).
Which is why hosting the 2011 and
2012 USA Cycling Masters Road National Championships is such a catch for
local riders — particularly for those competitive cyclists who race at a step or two,

or three, below the nation’s pro/elite level.
Although a verbal commitment had
been announced months ago, USA Cycling late last month finally inked an official two-year deal with Bend to host the
masters road national championships in
2011 and 2012. The weeklong event is
scheduled for Aug. 30-Sept. 4 in its first
year in Bend and for Aug. 27-Sept. 2 in
the second year.
The agreement between USA Cycling,
the sport’s national governing body, and
Visit Bend, the city’s tourism arm, will
bring to Central Oregon an event that is

expected to attract more than 800 competitors and 2,500 spectators to the area
both years in the week leading up to Labor Day weekend. This year, the championships are scheduled to take place in
Louisville, Ky.
According to USA Cycling, it was
Bend’s warm reception and smooth handling of the Junior, U23 and Elite Road
Nationals and the Cyclocross National
Championships, both held here in 2009,
that earned our community yet another
round of championship racing.
See Racing / D2

Royce Nelson
of Smolich
Snipers hurls
a ball for a
hit during
dodgeball action last week
at Morning
Star Christian
School in
Bend. There
are five teams
taking part
in the Spring
2010 Coed
Dodgeball
League.
Photos by Rob Kerr /
The Bulletin

COLLEGE
BASKETBALL
OSU’s Seth Tarver
among Pac-10
award recipients
WALNUT CREEK, Calif.
— California guard Jerome
Randle has been picked as
the Pac-10 player of the year.
Randle averaged 18.7
points and 4.5 assists per
game. He helped the Golden
Bears win their first conference title in 50 years.
In other awards handed out
by the league on Monday, Arizona forward Derrick Williams
was picked as the league’s
top freshman, Arizona State’s
Herb Sendek was selected
as the coach of the year, Oregon State’s Seth Tarver was
named defensive player of the
year, and Southern California’s Nikola Vucevic won most
improved player.
The awards are voted on
by the league’s coaches.
— The Associated Press

Ready, aim — dodgeball
New league allows
players to take the
court and let go

INSIDE
NBA

By Katie Brauns
The Bulletin

Cavaliers......97
Spurs ...........95

Mavericks ..125
T’wolves .... 112

Knicks ..........99
Hawks ..........98

Grizzlies ..... 107
Nets ...........101

Hornets ......135
Warriors..... 131

Short-handed Cavs
get past Spurs
Without its star players, Cleveland takes
a 97-95 win over San
Antonio, see Page D3
Smolich Snipers team member Holly Myers reacts after losing her grasp on a
catch attempt during dodgeball action last week in Bend.

Let’s face it. Dodgeball is brutal.
Though many of us can recall visions
of fifth-grade gym class, where the slam
jam resulted in only a few casualties,
adult dodgeball looks
a lot different.
When 150 to 200
pounds of muscle
launches a heavy 8.5inch-diameter rubber
ball through the air
COMMUNITY and that ball connects
with a body part, it’s
SPORTS
going to hurt a little.
“It’s painful,” says
Joseph Shinn, 36, of Bend, during the
first night of the Spring 2010 Coed
Dodgeball League at the Morning Star
Christian School in southeast Bend.
“I got hit in the face and shot in the
back by somebody,” says Shinn, who
plays for the Smolich Snipers, a team

AUTO RACING

Wreck paints NASCAR into corner
Cleveland’s Mo Williams
brings the ball up against San
Antonio’s George Hill during
Monday’s game in Cleveland.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The boys sure backed
NASCAR into a corner on this one.
Determined to give drivers more leeway this
season when it came to policing each other on
the track, NASCAR opened the year with a relaxed “boys, have at it” attitude. It was interpreted to mean NASCAR would look the other way
at a nudge here, a spin there, and all the retaliatory bumping and banging that goes on over a
very long season.
No one could have predicted, though, that
NASCAR’s first true test would come a mere
four races into the season following a frightening accident at Atlanta.

NASCAR on Monday found itself smack in
the center of a dilemma over what to do with
Carl Edwards, whose intentional wrecking of
Brad Keselowski late in Sunday’s race ignited a
heated debate about just what’s permitted under
this new policy.
Emotions are high in almost every corner,
and no decision NASCAR makes will satisfy
everyone.
What first must be figured out, though, is
what is everyone is so upset about?
Is it that Edwards returned to the track down
153 laps, intent on retaliating against Keselowski, and after trying for at least one full lap,
finally succeeded with a deliberate nudge?
See NASCAR / D3

made up of employees of Smolich Motors of Bend. “It was a good time.”
“All I gotta say is, ‘Ouch!’ ” exclaims
Smolich teammate Michael Ivens, 34, of
Bend. “I skinned my knee and took one
in the jimmy. It’s definitely not a smoker’s
sport,” he adds, admitting that he smokes.
“Guys are intense about everything,”
says Kaila Brothers, 25, of Bend, who
plays for the Subaru of Bend team. “You
can take the easiest sport and they make
it a conquest. They’re crazy.”
Dodgeball is typically played with six
players on each team (eight in the Central Oregon league, two of whom have to
be female).
See Dodgeball / D3

At Talladega,
Ala., on April
26, 2009,
Carl Edwards
(99) was
sent airborne
after colliding with Brad
Keselowski,
bottom, on
the final lap
of the Aaron’s
499 NASCAR
Sprint Cup
Series auto
race at Talladega Superspeedway.
Glenn Smith / AP file

S
B
Basketball
• UConn wins NCAA record 71st straight game: Tina
Charles, Maya Moore and the latest Connecticut Huskies
dynasty now has its own place in the record books. Charles
scored 16 points and Moore added 11 to help top-ranked
Connecticut win an NCAA record 71st straight game — a
59-44 victory over No. 6 Notre Dame on Monday night in the
semifinals of the Big East tournament. UConn surpassed
its own mark set from Nov. 9, 2001, to March 11, 2003. Unlike that amazing run, which ended in a loss in the Big East
conference tournament semifinals to Villanova, this Huskies
team has thoroughly dominated its opponents in every
game, winning all of them by double digits. Connecticut (320) will face West Virginia tonight with a chance to win its 16th
Big East Conference Tournament Championship.
• Saint Mary’s upsets Gonzaga in WCC title game:
Mickey McConnell scored 26 points, Ben Allen added 20
and Saint Mary’s upset No. 18 Gonzaga with an 81-62
victory Monday night in the West Coast Conference tournament title game. Omar Samhan had nine points and
seven rebounds for the Gaels (26-5), who earned the sixth
NCAA tournament berth in the small Bay Area school’s
history with a remarkable shooting performance against
the top-seeded Zags (26-6), the 10-time regular-season
WCC champions. Saint Mary’s won the WCC tournament
for just the second time since it began in 1987, beating
Gonzaga for the first time in 10 tourney meetings.

Baseball
• Selig: Too soon to determine if HGH test valid: Baseball commissioner Bud Selig says it’s too soon to determine
whether a blood test for human growth hormone can be
used for minor leaguers. Speaking Monday night before receiving a lifetime achievement award at the annual dinner of
the Jackie Robinson Foundation, Selig said Dr. Gary Green,
the sport’s outside expert, and other medical staff were
examining the data. Selig said the scientific experts haven’t
been able to give him a timeframe for their conclusions.
• Canadian doctor says HGH was for him: A sports doctor at the center of drug investigations in Canada and the
United States said Monday he treated Alex Rodriguez after
the Yankees slugger had hip surgery last year and prescribed anti-inflammatories but not human growth hormone.
Dr. Anthony Galea also told The Associated Press an assistant who was stopped at the U.S.-Canadian border in Buffalo, N.Y., last year was carrying only a minuscule amount of
HGH — which Galea said was for his own use. The doctor
reiterated that he has never given the drug to an athlete.

Football
• Trial opens in Vikes’ challenge of NFL drug policy:
The attorney for two Minnesota Vikings challenging the
NFL’s anti-doping policy opened their closely watched
trial Monday by accusing the league of failing to follow
state law when it tested them for drugs two years ago
and then decided to suspend them. The attorney, Peter
Ginsberg, also said the NFL is at least a partial employer
of defensive linemen Kevin Williams and Pat Williams.
Just who employs the two players when it comes to drug
testing is considered a key issue in their lawsuit against
the NFL.

Cycling
• Henderson wins 1st stage of Paris-Nice: Greg Henderson of New Zealand won a sprint Monday to take the
first stage of the Paris-Nice race in Contres, France, and
Lars Boom of the Netherlands maintained the overall lead.
Henderson beat Slovenian rider Grega Bole and Jeremy
Galland of France to complete the 125-mile flat stage in 4
hours, 22 minutes, 17 seconds.

Golf
• Ping waives settlement on square grooves: The 20year-old Ping wedges with square-shaped grooves will
no longer be allowed on the PGA Tour starting March 29
under an agreement reached Monday with Ping executives. John Solheim, the chairman and CEO of Ping, said
the Phoenix-based company is waiving its right that had
kept the PGA Tour from banning Ping Eye2 wedges made
before April 1, 1990, that have deeper, wide grooves no
longer allowed under new USGA regulations.
— From wire reports

Racing
Continued from D1
“In hosting the 2009 USA Cycling National Championships Bend showcased
an entire community who passionately
embraces the sport of cycling and its
various disciplines as a lifestyle,” said
Steve Johnson, CEO of USA Cycling,
last month in a press release confirming the masters deal with Bend. “That
type of support is critical to growing
the sport across the country and is a
large reason why Bend was awarded
the Masters Road National Championships for 2011 and 2012.”
The masters road nationals are open
to men and women ages 30 and older
(and by older, we’re talking divisions
for riders older than 80). Like the Junior, U23 and Elite version, participants
at masters nationals have the option to
contest three separate championships
— time trial, criterium and road racing
— all in age-graded divisions. Two-rider tandem racing divisions will also be
offered in road racing and time trial.
Bend cyclist Brenna Lopez-Otero
told me Monday that she was planning
to buy a plane ticket to Kentucky to
compete in her first-ever masters championship this coming August. But now
that masters road nationals are heading
to her hometown next year, the 39-yearold mother of 1- and 3-year-old boys
said she is having second thoughts.
“Maybe I ought to just wait,” said
Lopez-Otero, who works as a nurse
anesthetist.
A bike racer since 1995, Lopez-Otero
competed at the elite level in California and participated in the elite road
and criterium national championships
before relocating to Bend with her husband two years ago to raise their family. She first discovered Central Oregon
while racing in the Cascade Cycling

Classic several years ago.
“I knew this town was hot for cycling,” Lopez-Otero said. “But I didn’t
know it would be hosting national
(championship) events.”
She noted that those national championships have motivated her to continue racing and training at a high level
— she finished seventh in the women’s
35-39 age division at cyclocross nationals here back in December.
Still, as a working mom, she admits
that racing against full-time and younger pros is no longer realistic.
“In years past when I was racing at
the elite level, I used to pooh-pooh the
masters racing, even though I was 35 at
the time,” Lopez-Otero recalled. “Now,
when I look around the (elite) field, I
wonder how many of these women have
a career and two kids.”
Masters nationals represent an opportunity at glory for the older set, which
is not necessarily to say the slower set.
Anyone who rode or raced alongside
Bend’s Steve Larsen knows that just
because a rider has turned 30 or 35 or
40 does not mean he or she has slowed
down much. (Larsen, a world-class cyclist and triathlete, was still dominating
his competition when he died of a heart
attack last spring at the age of 39.)
What’s special about masters nationals is the rare chance they offer for racers to compete against amateur riders of
similar age from across the country —
all the while aiming for a shot at a starsand-stripes jersey and a national title.
Lopez-Otero, who said she does not
expect to be bike racing beyond her
40s, is taking a now-or-never approach
to masters nationals when they come to
Central Oregon in 2011 and 2012.
“If you’re going to have any glory,”
she said, “that’s where it’s going to be.”
Heather Clark can be reached at
bulletinheather@gmail.com.

Goalie leads Stars
to win over Capitals
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Marty
Turco and the rest of the Dallas Stars could have been forgiven for figuring this was a
lost cause.
They trailed by two goals
after two periods against
Alex Ovechkin and the NHLleading Washington Capitals,
a team seemingly en route to
a 14th consecutive home victory and fourth straight win
overall. Plus, the Stars have
been fading: Entering Monday, they were 0-3 and had
been outscored 17-5 since the
end of the Olympic break.
So much for all that. With
Turco in the net on this night,
anything was possible. He
made a career-high 49 saves,
and Dallas scored three times
in six shots early in the third
period, leading to a 4-3 shootout victory over Washington, despite two goals from
Ovechkin.
“It’s not going to be every
night that your goalie’s going to wear a mask and steal
a game for you,” Dallas coach
Marc Crawford said. “We
needed a great goaltending
performance tonight, and
Marty was absolutely terrific.
We love the fact that he fought
and fought and fought and

fought — and got a payoff.”
Turco’s save total doesn’t
even include the shootout,
which Dallas took 2-1. He
blocked four of five attempts
by Washington, including
by Ovechkin and Alexander
Semin, who seemed to fake
himself out and fell down
head-first into Turco.
“I think he was trying too
hard,” Capitals coach Bruce
Boudreau said.
Brad Richards had a goal
and an assist in regulation,
plus one of Dallas’ two scores
in the shootout. The other
came from Loui Eriksson.
Also on Monday:
Kings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Blue Jackets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0
LOS ANGELES — Michal
Handzus and Alexander Frolov scored power-play goals
41 seconds apart during a
four-goal first period, Fredrik
Modin also scored with the
man advantage against the
team that traded him last
week, and Los Angeles routed Columbus. Frolov also
tied a career high with three
assists, and the Kings also
got goals from Wayne Simmonds, Drew Doughty and
Brad Richardson to match
their highest-scoring output
of the season.

THE BULLETIN â&#x20AC;˘ Tuesday, March 9, 2010 D3

NBA ROUNDUP

NBA SCOREBOARD

Dodgeball

Cavs
push
past
Spurs

EASTERN CONFERENCE

Continued from D1
The objective for both teams is to
eliminate all players from the opposing team.
Picture a basketball court. Six balls
are lined up at the center of the court
and the two teams line up facing each
other along the baselines at the opposite ends of the floor. When the first
game starts, players from both teams
run to the center of the court and
grab balls and start chucking them
at their opponents. Players who get
hit by a ball thrown by an opposing
player are out and must then step to
the sidelines. If a player catches the
ball, the opponent who threw the ball
is out. Players who are out may resume play if a teammate catches the
ball. No outs for hits in the head or
below the knees. Several games are
played within a 45-minute time frame
(the time allotted for each match in
the Central Oregon league). The team
that has won the most games wins
the match.
Five teams currently make up the
2010 Winter Dodgeball League, hosted by All-Stars Basketball Academy,
a local youth basketball training organization offered at the Boys & Girls
Clubs of Central Oregon and other
locations around the area. Organizers
Jared Webb and Danny Makepeace
say the league has room to grow, and
they welcome more teams to sign up.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;It will catch on,â&#x20AC;? says Webb, who
moved to Bend from Seattle a few
months ago. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We used to play in
downtown Seattle in the parks on

The Associated Press
CLEVELAND â&#x20AC;&#x201D; LeBron
James was in street clothes.
Shaquille Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Neal was nowhere to be found, and Antawn Jamison was in the locker room icing his sore knee.
If they had lost, the Cleveland Cavaliers had plenty of
excuses.
They didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to use
one.
Mo Williams made two free
throws with 9 seconds left and
Delonte West made the kind
of plays down the stretch reserved for James as the Cavs
won for the first time in three
seasons without their superstar, beating the San Antonio
Spurs 97-95 on Monday night.
Cleveland had been 0-9
since 2007-08 without James.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;We had a great opportunity. Not many teams can
come here and win,â&#x20AC;? said
Spurs guard Manu Ginobili,
who scored a season-high
38. â&#x20AC;&#x153;LeBron wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t playing,
Jamison didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t play the second half and Shaq wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t
there. We blew a big one.â&#x20AC;?
Williams finished with 17
points for the Cavs, who were
playing their second straight
game without the injured
James. The NBAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reigning
MVP is nursing a tender right
ankle as well as other bumps
and bruises and Cleveland
coach Mike Brown is taking
advantage of a lull in Clevelandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s schedule to get him
rest.
West had 16 points and
made a key steal in the final
minute as Cleveland became
the first team to reach 50 wins
this season.
Also on Monday:
Mavericks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .125
Timberwolves . . . . . . . . . . .112
MINNEAPOLIS â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Shawn
Marion had a season-high 29
points and 14 rebounds and
Dallas stretched the leagueâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
longest active winning streak
to 12 straight games with a
victory over Minnesota.
Knicks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .99
Hawks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .98
NEW YORK â&#x20AC;&#x201D; New York
beat Atlanta for the third time
this season when video replay
showed Al Horfordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basket
came after the buzzer.
Hornets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .135
Warriors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .131
NEW ORLEANS â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Darren Collison had 16 points
and a career-high 20 assists,
and New Orleans snapped a
four-game losing streak.
Grizzlies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .107
Nets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .101
MEMPHIS, Tenn. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Mike
Conley and Rudy Gay had 21
points each, and Marc Gasol added 19 points and 13
rebounds and Memphis withstood a second-half rally to
defeat New Jersey, snapping
an eight-game home losing
streak.

Tae kwon do students
do well at tourney
PORTLAND â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Five tae
kwon do students from Bendâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
Acrovision Sports Center won
titles at the West Coast Tae
Kwon Do Championships, held
Saturday at the Oregon Convention Center. More than 30
schools from around the Northwest competed.
Reece King, 6, a blue belt,
was second in forms; Dylan

tennis courts, and there were leagues
all over the place. And I got here and
there was nothing.â&#x20AC;?
Webb and Makepeace, also of
Bend, run All-Stars Basketball Academy. They decided to offer other
sports for adults to raise money for
the basketball academy, and part of
the proceeds from the adult leagues
go to partners Boys & Girls Clubs of
Central Oregon. The organizers say
they plan to host another dodgeball
session in the summer.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;How could you NOT want to come
out on a weekday and play dodgeball?â&#x20AC;? Webb asks. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everybody has
played dodgeball at one point in their
life, and everybody can associate
dodgeball with when they were a kid.
Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s such a great opportunity to relive
childhood memories.â&#x20AC;?
The 45-minute dodgeball sessions
take a toll on the players.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Forty-five minutes felt like two
hours,â&#x20AC;? says Redmondâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Jesse Grover,
30, of the Smolich team as sweat drips
off his face.
Some of the players liken dodgeball
to therapy.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;It helps with aggression and stress.
Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s good stress relief,â&#x20AC;? says Greg
Thiessen, 40, of Bend, shortly after
his Smolich Snipers team steps off the
court following a 10-9 win against the
Old Dodgers.
In the background, a new match is
starting between teams called Subaru
of Bend and the Blacked-out Bank
Robbers.
Webb shouts â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dodgeball!â&#x20AC;? and
throws down his arms.
Bass-heavy music fills the well-lit
school gym, and the game is on.

Blacked-out Bank Robbers, a team
of employees from Bendâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Powder
House ski shop, is dressed in various
denim attire for a 1950s street-gang effect. And Subaru of Bend team members are all wearing white and black
T-shirts with the letters SOB printed
on them. The teams ease into play
and at first all the throwing seems
random. But after several games, the
team members are attacking together.
They wait for the right moment, then
all fling balls at the same time.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot of work,â&#x20AC;? says SOBâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bob
Tippet, 50, of Bend, moments after
getting slammed in the face with a
ball. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s physical: running, jumping
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and making sure the ball doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t
hit you in the face like it did me. I was
out by myself and three balls came at
one time; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to watch all three of
them. It kind of upset me for a second,
but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all in good fun.â&#x20AC;?
After the game is over, players
come off the court a bit battered and
bruised, some limping. But every one
of them is smiling. After all, it is just
dodgeball.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one of those old school-ground
sports you played when you were 8, 9,
10 years old,â&#x20AC;? says Ray Chapa, 54, of
Bend, who plays for the Subaru team.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;And at that time you had no worries
at all. â&#x20AC;Ś And your future was bright
and rosy. It kind of brings that feeling
back when you are out here. You just
forget everything.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;All you do is take your opponentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
head off.â&#x20AC;?
Katie Brauns can be reached at 541383-0393 or at kbrauns@bendbulletin.
com.

Ely, 7, a white belt, was second
in forms; Rayne Ely, 9, a yellow belt, was third in forms;
Joni Ransom, 9, a brown belt,
was first in forms; and Jadon
Bachtold, 11, a black belt, was
first in forms. All five Central
Oregon entries took first place
in sparring in their respective
categories.

Local skiers gain top
honors in Sweden
Kristina Strandberg, Sarah
Max, Taylor Leach and Evelyn
Dong, all XC Oregon crosscountry skiers, won a handful
of top honors in several events
during last weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Swedish Vasaloppet cross-country skiing
event in the Salen-Mora region
of Sweden.
Strandberg took second
out of 8,000 women in the 30kilometer TjejVasan classic
event. Her time was 1 hour, 32
minutes and 40 seconds. Max
placed ninth in the Skate Vasa
45K freestyle. In the 90K classic race, Strandberg was sixth,
Max finished 42nd and Leach
placed 107th. In the American Birkebeiner ski marathon,
Dong finished sixth, Max was
12th and Leach 68th.
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Bulletin staff report

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BASEBALL
FRIDAY NIGHT WORKOUTS: For Little
League players; this Friday and March 19;
ages 10 and under 6-7:30 p.m.; ages 11
and older 7:30-9 p.m.; $10 per session,
three for $25; at Bend Fieldhouse,
located at Vince Genna Stadium, 401 S.E.
Roosevelt Ave., Bend; 541-312-9259;
www.bendelks.com; jr@bendelks.com.
BEND MASTERS SOFTBALL LEAGUE
REGISTRATION: For ages 60 and over;
deadline is March 31; season runs May
20-Aug. 26; $20; Rob Cohen at 541-3825659; rob0405@bendbroadband.com.
BEND ELKâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S BASEBALL TRAINING CAMP:
Ages 7-10, skill development will include
hitting, throwing, fielding, base running;
bring baseball mitt, bat and a water
bottle each day; March 17, 18 and 19,
8:30â&#x20AC;&#x201C;11:30 a.m. at the Bend Field House;
$60-$81; www.bendparksandrec.org.
JUNIOR COUGAR BASEBALL GOLF
FUNDRAISER: A friendly golf tournament
fundraiser in four-person scramble format
is open to the public at The Club at Brasada
Ranch on April 3. Tournament includes 18
holes with cart and range balls, contests,
barbecue, silent auction and tournament
prizes. Cost: $87.50 per player, $350 per
team. Info. and registration: Brandon
Sunitsch at sunitsch@bendcable.com.

BASKETBALL
THREE-ON-THREE BASKETBALL
TOURNAMENT: Five-game guarantee on
March 20 and 21 hosted by Cannonball
athletics and open to all divisions and
age groups. Event will include trophies,
dunk contest and live band. Entry
deadline is Monday. Location: West Bend
Tennis Center, 1355 S.W. Commerce
Ave. Cost varies. Info. and registration:
murraycannon@live.com or 541-480-0093.

MISCELLANEOUS
WEST POWELL BUTTE EQUESTRIAN:
Western and English riding taught to
all levels ages 7 and older. Horses and
tack provided. At Powell Butte estates.
From 10 a.m. to noon March 20, 21, 27

NASCAR
Continued from D1
Is it that the high-speed contact sent Keselowski airborne in
a spectacular flip that could have
caused serious harm to Keselowski or any number of fans in
the grandstands?
Or, maybe, the issue is that
NASCAR wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t properly prepared to deal with the ramifications of allowing drivers free
rein on the race track.
All three are valid arguments.
First up is Edwards, who is on
a long list of drivers who have
been on the losing end of Keselowskiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s aggressive charge into
NASCARâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s top level.
Edwardsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; most obvious run-in
with Keselowski was on the final
lap of last Aprilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s race at Talladega, where Keselowskiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nudge
sent Edwards flying into the
fence in a wreck that some may
argue was more frightening than
Atlanta. But the two race against
each other weekly in two series,
and Edwardsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; hinted at a far
deeper history with the unapologetic Keselowski.
So when early contact between the two knocked Edwards
out Sunday, at a track where heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
won four times in two series, he

was ready for revenge.
Edwards, who was immediately parked for his actions,
had little to say after a postrace
meeting with NASCAR. But he
minced no words in a Facebook
posting late Sunday night.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;My options,â&#x20AC;? he wrote, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Considering that Brad wrecks me
with no regard for anyones safety or hard work, should I: A-Keep
letting him wreck me? B-Confront him after the race? C-Wait
til bristol and collect other cars?
or D-Take care of it now?
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I want to be clear that I was
surprised at his flight and very
relieved when he walked away.
Every person has to decide what
code they want to live by and
hopefully this explains mine.â&#x20AC;?
Opinions were split, though,
perhaps fueled by the severity of
Keselowskiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s crash.
There was no similar outrage
when Hamlin fulfilled his promise of payback on Keselowski in
last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Nationwide Series finale at Homestead. And it sure
seemed that the cheers far outweighed the jeers when Juan
Pablo Montoya and Tony Stewart
played retaliatory bumper-cars a
day later.
But because Keselowski went
airborne, bounced hood-first off
the retaining wall, and had to

training to become a swim instructor;
at the Athletic Club of Bend; April 3, 4,
10 and 11, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day;
open to the public; must be age 16 or
older; $135; Rob at 541-322-5856.
LIFEGUARD CLASS: Provides certification
in CPR/PR, standard first aid and life
guarding; April 17, 18, 24 and 25, 8 a.m. to
4 p.m. each day; open to the public; must
be age 15 and older and have swimming
skills; $175; Rob at 541-322-5856.

RUNNING
GIRLS ON THE RUN REGISTRATION: For girls
ages 8-11; sign-ups are limited to 15 girls
per location; offered at Pine Ridge and High
Lakes Elementary; starts March 29 and
30; $150; financial assistance is available;
heidi@deschutescountygotr.org; 541-7882499; www.deschutescountygotr.org.

climb from a cockpit so crumpled it looked more like an accordion than a car, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been a
cry for NASCAR to issue serious
sanctions against Edwards.
Fans want him suspended,
and many analysts have agreed.
Even Keselowski seemed to
taunt NASCAR into cracking
down on Edwards.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be interesting to see how
NASCAR reacts to it,â&#x20AC;? he said
after the wreck. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They have the
ball. If theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to allow people to intentionally wreck each
other at tracks this fast, we will
hurt someone either in the cars
or the grandstands. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not cool
to intentionally wreck someone
at 195 mph.â&#x20AC;?
Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s left NASCAR to sift
through the evidence. On one
hand, this is no different than a
traffic infraction: run a red light
and nothing happens, you maybe
get a ticket. Run a red light and
kill someone, now youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re looking
at vehicular homicide.
So now NASCAR plays judge,
jury and executioner, and its decision will reverberate through
the rest of the season.
A severe punishment against
Edwards is akin to a death sentence on the â&#x20AC;&#x153;have at itâ&#x20AC;? attitude.
If the first driver who actually
â&#x20AC;&#x153;had at itâ&#x20AC;? is hit with a stiff pen-

alty, then other drivers wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t
ever dare test the limits.
A significant fine, points deduction or probation will likely
back Edwards into a conservative mode that could alter the way
he races the rest of the year.
And no action at all, well, that
could promote repeat behavior
from Edwards or others.
Whatever NASCAR decides
wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t satisfy everyone, but there
are some guarantees going
forward.
Keselowski, for one, got the
message loud and clear that some
rival drivers have been trying to
deliver for a while now, and heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
likely going to think twice before
bulldozing his way through a
pack of traffic.
Edwards probably wishes heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d
done things a little differently and
will likely give deeper thought to
how he exacts his revenge.
And NASCAR? Well, NASCAR knows for sure it needs a
quick handbook on how to deal
with these issues.
Nobody wants to see the Wild
West re-enacted on the track
every weekend, but â&#x20AC;&#x153;boys, have
at itâ&#x20AC;? was a well-intentioned
idea that doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t deserve to be
scrapped because one incident
took everyone â&#x20AC;&#x201D; including Edwards â&#x20AC;&#x201D; by surprise.

D4 Tuesday, March 9, 2010 • THE BULLETIN

C OM M U N I T Y S P ORT S
COMMUNITY SCOREBOARD

I B

BOWLING

Orienteering event set BSC takes second at
for Mount Bachelor
state championships
The Columbia River Orienteering Club will host a ski orienteering challenge, starting between
10 a.m. and noon this Sunday at
the Mt. Bachelor Nordic Center.
Participants can take on courses
of 3, 7 or 10 kilometers.
Snowshoes will be allowed,
and classic and skate skis will
be available for rent. Registration is slated between 9 a.m. and
noon.
Cost is $6 for individuals and
$10 for groups for CROC members, $8 for individuals and $12
for groups otherwise. Nordic
center trail fees are extra.
For more information, go to
www.croc.org.

Summit hosts Hike for
Haiti this Saturday
The public is invited to join or
sponsor students of Bend’s Summit High School in hiking up
and down Pilot Butte from noon
to 2 p.m. on Saturday to raise
money for the American Red
Cross Haiti Relief and Development Fund.
Donations will be accepted.
Registration is not necessary.
For more information, call
541-322-3300.

Lava City hosts derby
bout this Saturday
The Lava City Roller Dolls
Cinder Kittens are back in roller derby action this Saturday
night with a home bout against
the Southern Oregon Roller
Girls.
The bout will take place at
Cascade Indoor Sports, 20775
High Desert Lane in northeast
Bend, where the doors will open
at 5 p.m. Tickets are $10 in advance, or $12 at the door.
The Roller Dolls are coming
off two bouts at the Slaughter
County Vixens Invitational Wild
West Showdown, a 19-team
event held Feb. 26-28 in Bremerton, Wash. There, Lava City lost
two close decisions, falling 156119 to Pikes Peak (Colorado)
and 138-137 to Arizona Roller
Derby.
For more information about
the Lava City Roller Dolls and
their upcoming events, go to
www.lavacityrollerdolls.com.

CORVALLIS — Strong individual performances in both
the girls and boys divisions
carried Bend Swim Club to second place at the Oregon Swimming 11-14 Short Course State
Championships.
The meet was held Feb. 25-28
at Osborn Aquatic Center and included nearly 40 teams.
Bend Swim Club piled up
486.5 points to finish behind only
the Tualatin Hills Thunderbolts
(898.5) in the team standings.
Lake Oswego Swim Club was
third, with 413.5 points.
BSC’s Baxter Halligan and
Ben Brockman tied for meet
high-point honors in the 11-yearold boys division, and Bend’s
Brandon Deckard was highpoint winner in the 14-year-old
boys division.
On the girls side for BSC,
Mackenzie Halligan placed first
in two events and set three Bend
Swim Club records.
Complete BSC results from the
meet are listed in today’s Community Sports Scoreboard.

Bend swimmers shine
at 10-under meet
SPRINGFIELD
—
Emily Brockman led the charge for
Bend Swim Club at the Oregon
Swimming 10-Under Championships, held Feb. 20-21 at Willamalane Park Swim Center.
Swimming in the 9-year-old
girls division, Brockman placed
first in four events and second
in two others. Among 16 BSC
swimmers in the meet, Tia Lindsay (8-under girls) and Hannah
Peterson (10-year-old girls) also
were event winners.
Complete BSC results from
the meet are listed in today’s
Community Sports Scoreboard.

Golf tournament to
benefit youth baseball
The 13U Junior Cougar Baseball program plans to host a golf
tournament to raise funds for its
2010 season. The event is scheduled for Saturday, April 3, at The
Club at Brasada Ranch in Powell
Butte.
The tournament format will be
four-player scramble. Entry fee
is $87.50 for individuals, or $350

for teams. Fees include 18 holes
of golf with cart and range balls.
To sign up or for more information, contact Brandon Sunitsch,
tournament coordinator, at
sunitsch4@bendcable.com.

Youth baseball camp
offered Saturday
The Summit High School
baseball program will conduct
its annual youth baseball camp
this Saturday at Summit High.
The camp, designed for boys
in 10U and 12U baseball programs, will run from 1-4 p.m.
The Summit coaching staff and
varsity players will conduct the
camp.
Instruction during the first
half of the camp will focus on
baseball fundamentals, including throwing, catching, hitting,
infield play, outfield play and
pitching. Starting at 2:30 p.m.,
camp participants will play in
a competitive game coached by
Summit players.
Cost for the camp is $30 per
player. Registration will be available on the day of the camp at
Summit High.
For more information, call C.J.
Colt, Summit varsity baseball
coach, at 541-322-3279.

Roughriders roll to
nonleague rugby win
PORTLAND — The Bend
Rugby Club Roughriders improved their season record to 9-6
on Saturday with a convincing
43-7 nonleague road victory over
the Oregon Sports Union Division 3 team.
Bend trailed 7-0 before scoring 43 unanswered points in
a rally that included two tries
apiece by Mike Hunter and Clint
Vogelsang and one each by Ron
Hernandez and Tyler Dolman.
Hunter made good on five of six
conversions and added a penalty
kick to complete the scoring.
The Roughriders’ Max Nicholson was named the game’s most
valuable player.
The Roughriders take a 4-6
Pacific Northwest Rugby Football Union Division 2 record
into a league match at home this
Saturday against the Axemen of
Bellevue, Wash. The match is set
for 2 p.m. at Bend’s High Desert
Middle School.
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Tea for men?
More men are
showing interest
in the aromatic liquid,
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SPOTLIGHT
Family, pizzeria to host
medical fundraiser

Photos by Rob Kerr / The Bulletin

Summit High School senior Naomi Wright performs a poem during the Art Fusion event at PoetHouse Art on Friday night. She is part of a new
class offered for teens about slam poetry and the art of hip-hop.

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n Friday, Summit High School senior Naomi Wright stood in front of a
packed audience at PoetHouse Art
and shared a poem about her daddy

issues, as she put it. The piece chronicled the
three years she’s spent with no contact from her
father, breaking it down into number of soccer
games missed and cookies eaten. When she finished, the crowd of mostly adults cheered loudly
as Naomi grinned. She had just shared something utterly personal in a very public forum.
“It’s a really good way to vent and get that off
your chest,” said Naomi.
Just a few weeks ago, Naomi had no idea she
would fall in love with spoken word poetry. But
now she is hooked. She is one of 10 students in
a brand new class dedicated to slam poetry and
the art of hip-hop. The class is one of a handful
of art classes offered through the local nonprofit
CADA | CASA (which is Spanish and English
for Community Academics Sports Arts). Tymon
Emch organized the class and Jason Graham,
known as Mosley Wotta, teaches.
See Poetry / E6

If you go
Kit Foreman, 17, performs a song Friday about being stuck
in Reno. She says the slam poetry class has helped her
write better lyrics and become more confident.

At Pappy’s Pizzeria on
Wednesday in Bend, you can
help raise money for a local boy
who’s receiving a kidney from
his mom.
Brady Hardin, a 16-year-old
Mountain View High School student, was diagnosed with chronic
renal failure at birth, said his
mom, Kim VanAntwerp. For 16
years, the family cared for Brady’s
kidneys so they’d last as long as
possible. Currently, his left kidney
doesn’t work and his right one is
working at about 12 percent of
normal, VanAntwerp said.
So Brady needs a transplant,
and his mother is a match.
They’re heading to Portland next
week for the surgery.
Brady’s grandmother, Linda
Kereen, is putting together
fundraising opportunities to help
with the family’s medical bills.
On Wednesday, Pappy’s Pizzeria will donate half of the
proceeds of any food order
made by someone who presents a flier about Brady. Fliers
have been placed around Bend
or are available by contacting
Kereen at 541-389-7166 or
gkereen@hotmail.com.
Then at 6 p.m., several baskets
and boxes filled with merchandise and gift certificates from local businesses will be raffled off,
Kereen said. Certificates range
from restaurants to hairstylists
to car washes. A quilt crafted
by Carol Houser will also be
raffled.
To buy a raffle ticket, call or
e-mail Kereen. Raffle tickets are
$1 each or $5 for six tickets. You
don’t have to be present to win.
Contact: Melissa at 541-6781840, help4bradyh@gmail.com
or www.cotaforbradyh.com.

Film about peace,
music to benefit KPOV
The film “Playing for Change:
Peace Through Music” will be
shown twice Thursday at the
Domino Room in Bend. Proceeds
will benefit Bend’s community
radio station, KPOV.
The 84-minute documentary
takes viewers around the world
as musicians merge their music
into an inspirational tapestry by
performing songs such as “Stand
By Me,” “One Love” and “War/No
More Trouble.” The idea in the
film is to gather musicians, singers and audiences to bring peace
to the world through music.
“Playing for Change” was the
Audience Award winner at the
2008 Woodstock Film Festival
and an official selection at 2008’s
Tribeca Film Festival and Jerusalem Film Festival. The film
was produced over several years
with a mobile recording studio
and cameras. More info is at
www.playingforchange.com.
In Bend, the film will screen
at 6:30 and 8:30 p.m. Thursday,
with doors opening 30 minutes
before each showing. Tickets at
the door are $6, and $5 for KPOV
members. Children are welcome.
Concessions, including beer and
wine, will be sold. The Domino
Room is at 51 N.W. Greenwood
Ave. in Bend.
Contact: 541-322-0863 or
www.kpov.org.

State calendar seeks
children’s illustrations
Middle school students can
now enter illustrations to be included in the 2011 Oregon Department of Human Services
problem gambling awareness
calendar.
Of the designs submitted by
Oregon students, 12 will be
selected. Students are encouraged to express their feelings
and perceptions about problem
gambling through their art.
Suggested art themes can be
found at www.problemgambling
prevention.org/art-search.htm.
All entries must be received by
March 19. Winners will receive
gift certificates.
Send entries to: Greta Coe,
Human
Services
Building,
500 Summer St. N.E. E86, Salem,
OR 97301.
— From staff reports

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E2 Tuesday, March 9, 2010 • THE BULLETIN

Was it Dogen’s final act on ‘Lost’?

Man has wife’s OK to look,
but not touch, other women
Dear Abby: Regarding your
answer to “Yoo-Hoo, I’m Over
Here!” (Jan. 10), who was bothered by her husband’s constant
leering at women, you’ve got
to be kidding. Men have been
looking at young women since
the beginning of time. My husband and his friends hold “office hours” every morning at our
neighborhood coffeehouse. I’ve
told him as long as he “touches”
only with his eyes, there won’t be
a problem.
My husband and his pals are
not “creepy old men.” They are
leaders in our community — doing
what they can to make the world
a better place, while enjoying the
scenery. There must be something
terribly wrong with “Yoo-Hoo’s”
marriage if she’s contemplating
divorce because of this.
— Keeping It Real in Tampa
Dear Keeping It Real: I told
“Yoo-Hoo” that from her description, her husband’s behavior seemed obsessive, that it
showed a lack of sensitivity to
her feelings and I recommended
marriage counseling. Responses
from my readers were varied.
Read on:
Dear Abby: In marriage we
promise to love and cherish our
wives. That is not what “YooHoo’s” husband is doing. It is
disrespectful to her, his supposed
one and only, and to the women
he is ogling. When a man stares
at another woman, it is not just
looking. He is fantasizing about
her. And sometimes it doesn’t
stop there.
— Tom in Half Moon Bay, Calif.
Dear Abby: I have been happily married for 18 years, we have
four children, and I can attest
that all men do NOT do that. My
husband isn’t blind to a beautiful
woman, but he is respectful of
my feelings and has enough selfrespect to not openly drool over
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school. We have also made careful note of who they are and who
their children are. If an invitation comes for one of our girls to
visit their kids at their house, the
answer is always NO.
“Yoo-Hoo’s” husband has a
problem. The sooner she realizes
it, the better.
— Watchful Mom in Butler, Pa.
Dear Abby: The way she describes her husband’s behavior
with women sounds like he may
have a sexual addiction. If so, he
is powerless over his behavior
and will do anything to justify
his addiction. It’s a waste of time
asking him to change unless he
goes into recovery for it. Other
signs of this addiction are affairs, frequenting bars, using
Internet chat rooms and looking
at porn.
— Knows From Experience
Dear Abby: I wonder how that
man would feel if he caught
someone his age leering at HIS
daughter? Maybe then he would
think twice about what he is
doing.
— Divorced in Kansas City
Dear Abby: Women look, too.
I look! I think it’s healthy to be
aware of the people around you.
But that doesn’t mean we have to
be obvious about it — certainly
not so obvious that we are inconsiderate of the people we are
with.
That said, the other side of the
coin is: Did he act like this when
they were dating? Did she know
what she was getting when she
married him? As they say, a leopard doesn’t change its spots.
— Irene in San Antonio
Dear Abby is written by Abigail
Van Buren, also known as Jeanne
Phillips, and was founded by her
mother, Pauline Phillips. Write
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Martha Stewart hopes
to surprise people in their
homes in “Help Me, Martha.”

Stewart
pitches new
show: ‘Help
Me, Martha’
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Ever wonder
how Martha Stewart might
tackle your decorating disaster or party planning nightmare? Some folks will soon
get the chance to find out.
Stewart announced Thursday that she and producer
Mark Burnett are teaming
up for a new television series,
“Help Me, Martha.” It’s being made by Stewart’s company, Martha Stewart Living
Omnimedia.
In the reality series, someone petitions Stewart to help
a friend who’s having trouble
planning a wedding or a special meal or is facing some
other lifestyle issue. The doorbell rings and — surprise!
— Stewart and her team are
there to take over.
Burnett says it’s been fun to
see “the joy on people’s faces
that Martha Stewart is in their
home.”
Stewart’s company has yet
to sell the series to a television
network.

Let’s get it out of the way
quickly. The answer to the
question we all want to ask is:
“I can’t. I’m sorry about that.
This is ‘Lost.’ I would tell you,
but I can’t.”
Is Dogen really dead? Of
course, we did not get to the
bottom of that mystery during a phone interview with
Hiroyuki Sanada, the actor
who plays him, or an e-mail
exchange with executive producers Damon Lindelof and
Carlton Cuse. “Lost” fans saw
Temple Master Dogen drown
at the hands of the infected
Sayid (Naveen Andrews) in
last Tuesday’s episode, but
whether viewers will see Dogen again, well, that’s a question for the birds at this point.
What Sanada did share is
what was going through his
mind during his awesome
action sequence in the temple with Sayid. “Lost” fans
couldn’t get enough of it, according to the Internet chatter
after the episode aired.
“I heard the voices of Sayid’s
fans screaming, ‘Don’t do that
to my Sayid!’” Sanada said. “I
heard that in my head when I
was fighting with him.”
With plenty of experience
under his belt as an on-screen
warrior, Sanada (“The Last
Samurai,” “Twilight Samurai”
and “Rush Hour 3”) said neither he nor Andrews was injured in the filming of the big
temple scene. In case anyone
was worried.
“The choreographer is a
good friend of mine and we
had a great relationship,”
Sanada said. “We had one or
two hours of rehearsals one
or two days before shooting
and then just, ‘Go! Go! Go!’ It
was so smooth. We shot a lot
more, but it was edited very
well.”
When “Lost” producers
cast the role of Dogen last
year, the Japanese actor was

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When: 9 p.m. Tuesdays
Where: ABC

their first choice.
“We were big fans of his work
from the movies ‘Twilight Samurai’ and ‘The Last Samurai,’”
Cuse and Lindelof wrote in an
e-mail. “We needed someone
as the Temple Master who conveyed real strength and presence but also had an underlying
vulnerability.”
Dogen, as he explained in the
show, made a pact with Jacob in
Osaka, Japan, after he got drunk
and got into a car accident that critically injured his son. Jacob offered
to heal the boy if Dogen agreed to
go to the island to work for him
and never see his son again.
“He has dignity, and also
weakness, and a lot of love,”
Sanada said. “That’s why I love
that character.”
With no script to read when
producers first called him, Sanada agreed to meet with Lindelof
and Cuse to learn more about
the character. They explained
that Dogen was the guardian of
the temple and was said to be the
only person capable of keeping
the Man in Black/Smocke out.
“But I needed to know, why
does a Japanese man come to the
island? Is it about Japanese culture? Is it political? Is it religious?
It’s a very delicate thing for us,”
Sanada said. “They answered
very clearly and were very understanding about my cultural
concerns and were very respectful. So I felt I could believe them
without a script and I decided
then.”
What came next was a monthlong marathon of watching

the first five seasons of “Lost.”
The actor, who incidentally had
worked with Matthew Fox on
“Speed Racer,” took in five or six
episodes a day until he caught
up.
Of course, Sanada and the producers wouldn’t address whether Dogen’s drowning is final,
whether that pool of water heals
him, or if we will, at least, see
him in more sideways flashes.
Dogen appeared in Jack’s (Fox)
parallel story line in last week’s
episode.
“From the beginning, I heard
that he would be a sacrifice to
the island,” Sanada said. “A good
death is what they said. But I
didn’t know I would be in the
sideways flashes. That was a big
surprise for me. That’s all I can
say about that.”
In case it turns out that magic
water can’t resurrect Dogen and
Sanada is gone from the show,
fans can find him in James Ivory’s “The City of Your Final Destination,” a movie that will have
a limited theatrical release next
month. Based on the Peter Cameron novel of the same title, the
cast includes Anthony Hopkins
and Laura Linney.
Sanada said working in Argentina on the film was “like a
dream.”
“I was so nervous, but Anthony Hopkins, he’s like a gent,
and he made me relax,” Sanada
said. “It’s good timing and good
contrast between the movie and
‘Lost,’ so I hope that the audience
enjoys the contrast.”
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NEW YORK — After saying
goodbye on concert stages and
online video streams, Lil Wayne
had
nothing
to add as he
was sentenced
Monday to a
year in jail for
having a loaded gun on his
tour bus.
The Grammy
Aw a r d - w i n - Lil Wayne
ning rapper delivered only a
brief bow to fans and supporters
as he was led out of a courtroom
in handcuffs to start serving his
sentence.
With that, Lil Wayne headed off
to face his punishment in a case
that had shadowed him as he became one of music’s most prolific
and profitable figures in recent
years. Arrested in July 2007, he
pleaded guilty in October to attempted criminal possession of a
weapon. He admitted he had the
loaded .40-caliber semiautomatic
gun on his bus.
His lawyer, Stacey Richman,
said the rapper was resolute as
he was taken away.
“He knew what he had to do,
and he’s doing it,” she said.
Lil Wayne, born Dwayne Carter, will serve his sentence in the
Rikers Island jail complex. The
27-year-old rap star could be
released in about eight months
with good behavior.

NEW YORK — Authorities
say D’Angelo was caught in New
York City trying to pay $40 for
sex with an
undercover
cop posing as a
prostitute.
Police said
Monday that
the 36-year-old
R&B
singer
was arrested
D’Angelo
early Saturday
while behind
the wheel of his
Range Rover.
D’Angelo’s real name is
Michael Archer. He says in a
statement that he pleaded not
guilty and plans to fight the
charge.
The statement says the singer
hopes the public will “allow the
American justice system to resolve the matter before jumping
to any conclusions.”

Beyoncé named
an official Brooklynite
NEW YORK — The president
of Brooklyn has declared Beyoncé an official
Brooklynite.
Borough
President Marty
Markowitz
said Beyoncé is
a Brooklynite
by
marriage
and by moxie.
Beyoncé’s hus- Beyoncé
band, Jay-Z, is
from Brooklyn.
The superstar visited the New
York City borough Friday for the
opening of the Beyoncé Cosmetology Center at a residential substance abuse treatment center.
The Phoenix House offers programs for residents in carpentry,
building maintenance, computer
technology and culinary arts.
Beyoncé said she thought it
also should have more programs
geared toward women. She said
her mother’s Houston salon
helped so many people feel good
about themselves and better
their lives.
Beyoncé first spent time at
Phoenix House when preparing
for the role of Etta James in the
2008 film, “Cadillac Records.”

Alleged stalker of
Dr. Pinsky is arrested
LOS ANGELES — A man was
being held in a Pasadena, Calif.,
jail Thursday
on suspicion of
stalking reality
show star Dr.
Drew Pinsky.
Charles
William Pearson, 33, was
deta i ned
Dr. Drew
Wednesday by
Pinsky
L.A.
County
sheriff’s deputies, who spotted him at a computer terminal
in the school library at Pierce
College in Woodland Hills, said
Deputy Ronald Nohles.
Pearson was arrested by Pasadena police at about 5:30 p.m. on
suspicion of stalking the television and radio personality, according to public records.
Pearson posted violent threats
to Pinsky and his family over
the Internet for the last several
weeks before Pinsky contacted
police March 1, said Janet Pope
Givens, a spokeswoman for the
Pasadena Police Department.
At some point during that time,
Pearson showed up at the radio
station where Pinsky works and
made accusations about the doctor, she said.
Pinsky stars on “Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew” and hosts the
nationally syndicated radio show
“Loveline.” On Thursday, he sent
this message on Twitter: “’Be generous with kindly words’- Goethe
/ Something I am trying to cultivate in light of recent events.”
Pearson’s bail was set at
$150,000, according to L.A.
County Sheriff’s Department
records.
— From wire reports

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY for
Tuesday, March 9, 2010:
You discover that if you have the
support of others, your abilities
are enhanced. This year, you
can manifest many more of your
desires. Your birthday heralds a
new life cycle. Remain positive,
and manifesting could become
second nature to you. If you are
single, you will have to work to
maintain that status with so many
suitors. If you are attached, your
sweetie benefits from your positive,
happy attitude. CAPRICORN
helps make what you want
happen. This person is a friend.
The Stars Show the Kind of Day
You’ll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive;
3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult
ARIES (March 21-April 19)
HHHH What you are sure of this
morning could be up for grabs
by the afternoon. Your instincts
could be telling you that another
course would be better. Don’t fight
city hall until you know exactly
which path suits you. Tonight:
Burning the midnight oil.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20)
HHHHH Listen to another’s
opinion, but understand that
this might not be the gospel
truth, only what he or she is
thinking. A meeting proves to be
most enlightening and provides
direction. Check in with an expert
or two before you say that this is
it. Tonight: Take in new vistas.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20)
HHHH Others could be
forward, in your opinion, but
what you think might not be

all that important. Be willing to
break through and find another
path that suits you. Investigate
options with care. Tonight: A
long-overdue conversation.
CANCER (June 21-July 22)
HHHH Dive into work. You will
want to network later and handle an
issue. Your ability to change gears
is a testimony to your strengths.
You are able to do this with
ease. Work with a loved one who
presents a different point of view.
Tonight: A force to be dealt with.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)
HHHH Be aware of what is
happening with a child or loved
one. This person might feel a
little down. Your conversation
could be difficult. Discussions
remain animated, especially
at work. Accomplishment is
your middle name. Tonight:
Quit pushing so hard.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
HHHHH Your creativity marks
your decisions, forcing your hand
with a child or loved one. You
simply know when something is
off. Honor a change, remaining
more upbeat than many. Others
happily allow you to take the lead.
Tonight: Kick up your heels.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
HHHH Don’t question what
is happening so intensely.
Sometimes you are the source
of your negativity. Pleasure
surrounds a domestic matter.
Make your best effort to get past a
problem. Tonight: Settle in early.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
HHHH Avoid going to extremes.
You could be a lot more vulnerable

Poetry
Continued from E1
Naomi was one of two students
from the new class to perform at
the Art Fusion event after Friday’s Gallery Walk.
All of the students are slated to
perform at a special open house
March 17, and many will also
showcase their efforts at the allages poetry slam at Townshend’s
Bend Teahouse on March 18 (see
“If you go” on Page E1).

The class
Emch came up with the idea
for this class as a way for young
voices to be heard. He contacted
Graham, who is a well-known
and respected spoken word artist, visual artist and musician,
about teaching.
Emch says the students have
produced a lot of good writing
about some interesting subjects,
from parent issues, stress about
college, politics and war, to the
cliches of Bend. He thinks the
experience has helped students
gain a little bit of introspection and helped them “analyze
themselves and analyze society
around them.”
The class includes information about the history of these
art forms as well as practical tips
and techniques. Graham talks
about the importance of character and one’s ability to take on a
persona on stage. He explains
that’s why he uses his stage
name Mosley Wotta. He calls it
a protective coating — that way
“Jason Graham doesn’t get affected.” Graham has also worked
with students about how to use
a microphone, being aware of
their breath, learning to see cliches and discovering that really
simple things can by dynamic.
He doesn’t expect students to
wind up perfectly polished. In
fact, Graham says some of his fa-

Rob Kerr / The Bulletin

Naomi Wright, center, and her instructor, Jason Graham, right, react to the crowd’s cheers after Naomi read her poem at a PoetHouse
Art event Friday.
vorite moments are the awkward
ones because those are the truth.
Emch and Graham also teach
the class at J Bar J Boys Ranch,
a residential program for adjudicated youth. Graham says the
students at J Bar J are not as loquacious or academic, but they
have “raw guts and bones” and
talk about heavy subjects. That
class involves less critique and
more encouragement. “The last
thing we want them to do is clam
up,” said Graham.

The PoetHouse class culminates next week with an open
house and performance. The
event will showcase work from
all of the classes offered by
CADA | CASA — including graffiti, silk screening, puppet and
3D design, and more. It will also
include a presentation about the
next round of classes slated to
start later this spring. Classes all
cost $60 for the six-week session,
but scholarships are available.
Graham and Emch both have

long-term vision for these classes
and hope to see them continue
indefinitely.

Students
Naomi first heard about the
class when Graham stopped by
her Advanced Placement English
class this year. She didn’t think
of herself as a poet, but liked the
sound of the class and decided to
give it a go. She loved meeting all
of the students and has found the

medium inspiring.
“The whole world of slam poetry was new to me.” She watched
every episode of the Def Poetry
Jam on HBO. And she competed in
the all-ages slam at Townshend’s
Bend Teahouse last month (she
earned third place).
Naomi says she likes the beat
and rhythm that comes with this
style of poetry. It also tends to have
vivid imagery and metaphors and
deals with real-life issues.
She compares it to an object in

the Harry Potter world called a
“pensieve,” which characters use
to examine memories. Slam poetry allows her to take issues out
of her head and share them.
Naomi also credits the class
with keeping up her enthusiasm.
As a senior in her second semester, Namoi says she had started to
feel burned out on school. But this
art form has “revamped my passion for everything.” Sitting in a
history lesson about courts, Naomi starts thinking about how “Ladies and gentlemen of the jury”
would make an excellent start to
a new poem.
Summit senior Caitlin Young
didn’t perform at Friday’s event,
but she was there to support her
classmates. She didn’t feel quite
ready to take the stage, but feels
she’s getting closer. “My confidence level is not quite there yet.”
As a member of the speech and
debate team and the school newspaper, Caitlin is always looking
at facts. This gives her an outlet
to express her own perspective
and feelings. She wants to stay involved with slam poetry and hiphop “as a way to enhance my life.”
On Friday, class member Kit
Foreman, who attends Marshall
and Bend high schools, performed a song she had written.
It was about a day in December
when she got stuck in Reno and
wanted to go east. She joined the
class to improve her lyric writing
ability. Kit says the class did that
and helped give her a boost of
confidence — enough that she felt
comfortable playing her acoustic
guitar and singing in front of a
large crowd.
Her melodic song quieted the
crowd and by the end, everyone
was clapping and even singing
along. A ton of cheers greeted
the close of her song — and a few
shouts of “That was awesome!”
Alandra Johnson can be
reached at 541-617-7860 or at
ajohnson@bendbulletin.com.

Men savoring the – non-foamy – brew
technology (eventually retiring
as assistant vice president at the
Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia), he had to create a newventure business plan. Classmate Richard Miller, an avid tea
drinker, suggested a tea business. James and another student,
Duane Higginbotham, “looked
at him like he was crazy.” But
because it was only an academic
exercise, they thought, why not?
When research showed tea
was a growth industry, the trio
decided to invest in Tea Country
as an online vendor in 2001 before opening the East Oak Lane
shop in 2004.
A few years later, James noticed that not only were more
men buying tea at his shop —
where shelves are stocked with
black canisters that feature 100
varieties (Golden Assam, Monk’s
Blend, Organic Wuyi Oolong) —
but they were asking questions
on the finer points of tea leaves.

By Lini S. Kadaba
The Philadelphia Inquirer

PHILADELPHIA — The
10 men bantered about their
wives’ cooking, boxing greats,
and suits that fit too snugly.
This, however, was no sports
bar meet-up or barbershop chat.
Two hours earlier, Howard James,
a co-proprietor of Tea Country
in Philadelphia, had called the
group to order by taking requests
for a beverage steeped in centuries of elegant tradition.
“Can I have yerba maté?”
asked regular Weller Thomas,
54, a travel magazine publisher
who lives nearby.
James, 61, wearing a maroon
apron stamped with his shop’s
name, looked pleased. “It has four
times the antioxidants than green
tea,” he told the men, the first of
many tea tidbits he would pass
along this afternoon. “It keeps
you alert without the jitters.”
So began the third meeting of
the budding Gentlemen’s Tea Club
— one more indication of guys’
growing interest in the aromatic
liquid.
No one keeps track of how
many macho types find the
leaves of the Camellia sinensis
to be just their cup of tea, but it
is known that tea itself is big
business.
In the United States, the
wholesale market has nearly
quadrupled from $1.84 billion in
1990 to $7.13 billion in 2008, according to the New York-based
Tea Association of the U.S.A.
Also, Americans consume more
than 55 billion servings of tea —
2.5 billion gallons.

Earl Grey for Earl
But if the idea of men sharing
stories sipping blueberry rooibos
rather than Budweiser sounds
like a “Saturday Night Live” skit,
consider the anecdotal evidence
to the contrary.
Tea drinking is no longer confined to lace-covered parlors. In

Tea for 2 or 3
Elizabeth Robertson / The Philadelphia Inquirer

From left, Gentlemen’s Tea Club members Joseph Moore, Tea Country owner Howard James (standing), James Vance and Evan Draber attend a meeting at Tea Country in Philadelphia.
recent years, tea cafes and tea
bars with chic, hip vibes (and
no pink) have joined the party
— more than 2,400 tearooms
exist around the country — and
have offered a welcoming hub
for men. One New Mexico venue
even provides tea and cigar tasting for the manly.
Last year, Thistledown Shop
in New Hampshire, which has
long made teapot covers in flowery motifs, added a man cozy,
called a hob (cozy being too feminine-sounding), “to appeal to
the growing number of male tea
drinkers,” as its Web site notes.
Hobs come in olive greens and
grays with a buckle — no silk
ribbons here.
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company called Manteas.com.
“It’s not an Earl Grey, English
breakfast tea scene anymore,”
said tea blender and author Bruce
Richardson, owner of Elmwood
Inn Fine Teas in Perryville, Ky.
Men, of course, have historically enjoyed the brew, including
George Washington, but the rise
of Victorian-era tea culture in the
19th century was a dealbreaker
for many fellas. Now, America’s
renewed interest in tea, particularly among men, has “gone into
fifth gear,” Richardson said, taking off like a Maserati. When
he began tea talks two decades
ago, he attracted mainly women.
Now, men make up at least 20
percent of the audience.
“A gentlemen’s tea club is right

on for this time in our tea world,”
said Pearl Dexter, editor and
publisher of Tea A Magazine,
who has noticed more male tea
imbibers in her travels.
Even though the club makes
sense, James himself seems an
unlikely enthusiast of tea. “People are amazed I’m around,” he
said. He grew up in the rough
James W. Johnson Homes in
North Philadelphia, where gangs
ran rampant. “I’ve been stabbed
and stomped, all that kind of crazy stuff.” But he also was a Boy
Scout, and mentors kept him at
his studies, he said.
His interest in tea began as
a requirement. As a master’s
of business administration student at Eastern University while
working full time in information

“Some of them would sit down
and chat,” said James, who replaced his addiction to two large
cups of Starbucks a day with
three cups of tea. Before long, he
was introducing customers to one
another. Why not create a club?
“This is really a relaxation
spot,” he said, noting that membership comes with no obligations beyond a $40 annual fee
that includes the gatherings on
the third Saturday of the month
(and plenty of tea). New members
also get a free porcelain teapot.
Several of the men live in East
Oak Lane, as James does, and
joined the club because they
knew the trim (he has taught karate) shopkeeper with the shaved
head through Omega Psi Phi
fraternity.
“He was someone I respected,”
said Emerson Willis, 59, a sales
rep who admits he wasn’t much
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tea among his favorites. “I’ve
grown to like it. Howard brought
a whole new world to us.”
Thomas, who serves as the
club’s vice president, agreed. “I
was just fascinated,” he said. “I’m
always learning something. At a
bar, you have so many different
distractions. Here, you don’t.”
As the day’s guest speaker,
Donald Schuler, Sr., talked about
“taking charge of your body” and
the pluses of fruits and vegetables,
the men poured the rich brown
liquid from mustard-colored or
white pots into patterned Chinese-style cups (no handles) and
black mugs with a splash of color.
English teacups held with a raised
pinky would be “too soft for the
men,” James said with a chuckle.
Health was the topic of the
day, prompting discussion of recipes for smoothies and how best
to prepare greens. It’s the health
benefits, and foodie allure, of tea
that often attract the testosterone
set. “It’s a very easy way to alter
your lifestyle,” said Joe Simrany,
the tea association president.
The jury is still out, but studies have shown an association
between the antioxidant-rich tea
leaf and improved cardiovascular function; reduced incidence
of cancer, particularly colon; and
increased bone density.
As recently as January, tea
was touted as a way for men to
trim a belly after researchers
found that men who drink more
than two cups of tea a day have
trimmer waistlines than men
who drink coffee or nothing at
all. (Alas, women didn’t see the
same advantage.)
“You’re not going to see specialty tea advertised on the Super Bowl,” said Frank Viola, 60,
of Rydal, an adjunct who taught
James at Eastern. But, he said,
“men have a lot of issues. They
want to take time to decompress.
It doesn’t have to be alcohol or
physical sports contact.”
For this group of men, at least,
a hot cup of tea will do.

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A splash
of style
By Alison Highberger
For The Bulletin

Your kitchen’s backsplash has
a simple job: to protect the walls
from spills and splatters. But it
can also add a big splash of style
to your decor.
When interior designer and Cascade Design Center owner Ronda
Fitton works on a kitchen project,
she focuses special attention on
this small but important area.
“I look for impact; something to
catch the eye. Anything that’s on
a vertical surface, as opposed to a
horizontal surface, you’re going to
see more quickly when you walk
into a room,” she said.

Not much sugar,
plenty of spice
FOOD

Savory baking
uses familiar
techniques,
but new flavors
By Alison Highberger
For The Bulletin

I

f you only bake desserts
and breakfast sweets,
you’re missing out.
There’s a whole world of
savory baking waiting for
you that has nothing to do with
sugar. It’s all about herbs and
spices, mushrooms, cheeses, vegetables, nuts and meats.
“Savory baking is for people
who like to cook, but would like
to bake without the sweet component, so it’s more of a combination of baking and cooking,”
said Mary Cech (pronounced
“check”), author of “Savory
Baking.”
Cech is an award-winning pastry chef and culinary instructor
from Park City, Utah.
After years of teaching cooking
classes all over the United States,
often to home cooks with a sweet
tooth, Cech shifted gears and
started to explore the savory side
of her profession.
Cech’s experimentation resulted in her cookbook, which
includes 75 savory recipes with a
variety of ethnic flavors that are
designed to expand the repertoire
of anyone who likes to bake.
It’s all the same techniques, but
with a flavor switch.
See Baking / F2

Backsplash choices
Ceramic and glass tile remain
the No. 1 choices for backsplashes, according to Fitton. Jorden
Swart agrees. He’s the owner of
Brilliant Environmental Building
Products in Bend, which specializes in environmentally friendly
and recycled materials.
“Tile dominates because of its
versatility,” Swart said.
But there are other options
worth exploring, from recycled
plastic and resin products to stainless steel and custom-designed
acrylic paintings by local artists.
Stainless steel tiles and stainless steel panels are available, but
not as popular in Central Oregon
as they are in more urban areas.
“People here are outdoorsy, so
they like the natural, casual look.
Not to say they don’t like a little
bling of a little glass tile now and
then,” Fitton said.

Beyond tile
Backsplashes used to be 6-inch
borders of tile, wood or other material that started at the countertop, with painted walls above.
Not anymore.
See Backsplash / F4

IN BRIEF
OSU Extension seeks
master food preservers
The Crook, Deschutes and
Jefferson county offices of the Oregon State University Extension
Service are recruiting volunteers
to participate in 48 hours of indepth food safety and preservation
training on Wednesdays, March 31
through May 26 (except April 14).
Applications are due by March 16.
Volunteers will receive a resource notebook with reliable
methods for preserving food at
home and hands-on practice in
the kitchen. They also agree to
spend at least 48 hours helping
county residents handle and preserve food safely. Volunteer activities will include conducting
workshops, testing pressure canner gauges and staffing exhibit
booths at county fairs.
The cost of the program is $50.
The training sessions will be at
the OSU/Deschutes County Extension office in Redmond.
Contact: http://extension
.oregonstate.edu/deschutes/
food-preservation, 541-548-6088
or glenda.hyde@oregonstate.edu.
— From staff reports

Spicy Tomato Crumble can be served as a side dish, or as a pasta topper. “It’s a little crunchy on top, it’s spicy like
a puttanesca, and it’s just yummy,” says Mary Cech, an award-winning pastry chef and author of “Savory Baking.”

GARDEN

Catalogs offer germinating devices and more
By Liz Douville

This “cow pot” manure container
promises to decompose after being
planted in the ground. See more
planting techniques on Page F5.

For The Bulletin

Wake up, procrastinators. As we
get another day closer to planting
season, more gardeners will feel the
disappointment of not receiving some
of the seeds they ordered. I started
ordering seeds in January, and immediately received notice that one item
was sold out and several others were
back-ordered, to be shipped in late
March. I have heard similar stories
from friends.
Why do I order seeds? Firstly, because I want to make sure I am planting open-pollinated seeds for my vegetable selections. That is information
that may or may not be printed on the

Rob Kerr / The Bulletin

seed packets from the rack displays.
Open-pollinated varieties are consistent in characteristics; each generation is almost identical to its parent.
The seeds will be true to type and

can be saved. Open-pollinated seeds
also have not been altered by genetically modified organisms, commonly
called GMOs.
I like knowing the background of
the companies I order from. Their letter of introduction, usually found on
the inside cover of the catalog, makes
me feel more connected to the complete cycle of gardening.
See Germinating / F5

Baking
Continued from F1
If you love to bake cookies, for
example, you’ll find 11 recipes
for savory shortbreads, biscotti,
madeleines and others that are
meant for the start of a meal, not
the end.
They make sensational appetizers when matched up with
cheeses, dips and drinks.
Cech said in a phone interview
that she finds savory baking a fun
and creative way to cook.
“It’s not easy to come up with a
cookie recipe without sugar. With
sweet baking, you lean on sugar
for flavor, and without the sugar,
you have to be creative and come
up with substitutes like cheeses
and herbs, dried mushrooms and
spices,” she said.
For people who love to cook,
but shy away from baking, Cech
said a good recipe to try is her
Spicy Tomato Crumble (recipe at
far right).
“A crumble topping is one of the
easiest things to make for a nonbaker. You just mix the ingredients together. What I really like
about this is it can be served in a
casserole as a side dish, or I love
to do a pasta, like fettuccine, and
then serve the crumble on top. It’s
a little crunchy on top, it’s spicy
like a puttanesca, and it’s just
yummy,” Cech said.
The good news about savory
baking is that Central Oregon’s
high altitude won’t deflate your
efforts.
Cech is aware of the problem.
In Park City, she’s at about 7,000
feet. Bend’s elevation is 3,600 feet.
“For high-altitude baking,
what you’re dealing with is the
lack of structure in baked goods
that comes from the air pressure
being less. One of the culprits is
sugar, which is a tenderizer and
‘weakener’ of that whole structure. In these savory items, there
is little or no sugar, so you should
be in good shape at your altitude. I
haven’t had any problems with it,”
she said.
If you love to bake, you’ll be intrigued with Cech’s more complicated recipes. She recommends
her Chili-Cheese Gratin Sandwiches (far right) for people who
enjoy making quick breads.
“The bread is great alone or
served with chili, or you can transcend it and make it into openfaced sandwiches with a slice of
really nice tomato on top and then
that cheese herb butter broiled on
top. Oh my gosh, it’s so good —
garlicky and kind of like a Welsh
rarebit type of thing,” she said.
Another dish that Cech said
is not to be missed is her clafouti
made with portobello mushrooms
in a shallot cream sauce (at right).
A clafouti is traditionally a dessert made with cherries baked in
a sweet batter, but Cech’s savory

To prepare the topping, combine the bread crumbs, rolled oats,
flour, Parmesan cheese, oregano, sage and salt in a medium bowl.
Add the butter and work it into the flour mixture with your fingertips
until the mixture is crumbly. Set aside.
To prepare the filling, put the garlic, capers, pepperoncini, honey,
basil, red wine, tomatoes and olives in a medium saucepan over
high heat. Stir and bring to a rapid boil. Reduce the heat to medium
and cook for 25 minutes to reduce the filling slightly.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Pour the filling into a 6-cup
(1½-quart) casserole dish, and sprinkle with the topping. Place the
casserole dish on a baking sheet and center in the oven. Bake until
the topping is golden brown and the filling is bubbling, about 15
minutes. Serve hot from the oven.
— “Savory Baking” by Mary Cech, Chronicle Books, 2009

CHILE-CHEESE GRATIN SANDWICHES
Makes 8 servings.
Thick slices of warm, moist cheese bread with a kick of jalapeño are topped with ripe tomato slices and a cheese topping, then
broiled until bubbly and golden brown. Make the bread and topping ahead, and toast sandwiches in an instant. You’ll be sure to
make these fork-and-knife, open-faced sandwiches often for lunch
or brunch. — Mary Cech

Mushroom Clafouti is a savory take on a classic French dessert.
twist turns it into an earthy side
dish.
“I’ve done this recipe so many
times for guests and for myself
and my husband. It’s sooooo
good, and I serve it in little ramekins like you’d serve a creme brulee. It’s great as a side dish with
beef,” she said.
Cech writes in her book that
baking sweets will always be “a
big part of my culinary pleasures,”
but the fun of baking is no longer
reserved for dessert.
“I’ve had very good success
with teaching students savory
baking who say, “Wow, now I like
to bake more,” Cech said.
Alison Highberger can be
reached at ahighberger@mac.com.

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Makes 4 servings.
A clafouti is a rustic dessert popular in Provence, France. It is
usually made with black cherries blanketed with a thin, white sweet
batter, baked and served hot. My earthy and aromatic savory rendition is decadent, rich and flavorful. It is delicious served with roasted
meats or poultry. Mix and match mushrooms for fun. — Mary Cech
CLAFOUTI BATTER
¼ C dried portobello
mushrooms (or dried
chanterelles or porcini)

To prepare the batter, put the dried mushrooms in a small bowl and
pour the boiling water over the top. Gently stir and then cover with
plastic film. Let the mushrooms hydrate for 15 minutes. Drain, reserving ½ cup of the liquid. Chop the mushrooms into 1-inch pieces.
Put the flour in a medium bowl. Pour the reserved mushroom liquid over the flour and whisk until smooth. Add the salt, eggs and
hydrated mushroom pieces. Continue mixing to a smooth batter.
Meanwhile, prepare the filling. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.
Lightly butter four shallow, 6-ounce (¾-cup) ceramic dishes and arrange them on a baking sheet. Heat the olive oil in a large sauté
pan or skillet over medium-high heat. Add the mushrooms and
sauté until lightly browned on one side. Turn them over and brown
the other side. Add the shallots and rosemary, and continue to
sauté until the shallots are translucent, about 1 minute. Stir in the
heavy cream, salt and pepper. Bring to a rapid boil and cook until
the cream is reduced by half, 1 to 2 minutes. Divide the mushroom
cream among the prepared ceramic baking dishes.
Pour the batter evenly over the mushroom cream and place the
baking sheet in the oven. Bake until the crust looks puffed and the
mushrooms are bubbling, about 15 minutes. Serve immediately
from the oven.
— “Savory Baking” by Mary Cech

To prepare the bread, preheat the oven to 375 degrees and butter or spray an 8x3-inch loaf pan. Stir the flour, sugar, baking powder, pepper and salt together in a medium bowl. Add the cheese,
and gently toss until the cheese is evenly distributed throughout
the mixture.
Whisk the milk, oil, egg, green chilies, chopped jalapeño and red
bell pepper together in another bowl. Pour the milk mixture over
the flour mixture and briefly blend with a spatula. The batter will
look moist. Pour the batter into the prepared pan and place it in the
oven. Bake until the top is golden brown and springs back when
gently touched in the center, about 45 minutes. Put the loaf on a
cooling rack for 10 minutes and then remove the bread from the
pan to completely cool.
Meanwhile, prepare the topping. Put the butter, cheddar and Romano cheeses, Worcestershire sauce, garlic powder and a little
salt in the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a whip attachment. Whip
for 2 minutes on medium speed. Alternatively, the topping can be
pulsed in a food processor for about 1 minute.
Set the oven to broil. Cut the loaf into 8 slices and lay the slices
on a baking sheet. Place a tomato slice on each piece of bread.
Spoon about 2 heaping tablespoons of the cheese topping over
each tomato slice. Put the baking sheet in the oven about 4 inches
away from the flame, and broil until the cheese is bubbly and golden brown, 3 to 5 minutes. Serve immediately.
Note: Wrap cooled bread in plastic film and store at room temperature for up to 1 week, or freeze for up to 1 month. Remove the
loaf from the freezer and thaw at room temperature for a couple of
hours. Warm in a 300-degree oven for 15 minutes before serving.
The cheddar topping can be made ahead and stored in the refrigerator for up to 2 weeks.
— “Savory Baking” by Mary Cech

Trying to form consensus on the
best macaroni and cheese is like
getting Congress to agree on anything. There is precious little agreement where a dish of pasta baked
in a cheese sauce is concerned.
Why? Because we’re all convinced we make the best. Or our
taste buds are attuned to familiar
flavors — our mom’s mac; that
prized recipe from our favorite
magazine or cooking show; the
heart-attack-on-a-plate from a beloved restaurant.
Our mac ’n’ cheese allegiances
are steeped in oven-baked tradition and formed by bonds far stronger than the elastic pull of molten
cheese. Like recipes for homey favorites such as pot roast, lasagna,
chili and apple pie, macaroni and
cheese is a treasure; not something
to be trifled with (or truffled with
— more on that later).
We knew that going into our
macaroni and cheese throwdown,
a friendly competition among
Houston Chronicle readers for
the best recipe. We knew we’d get
plenty of submissions (more than
100), but we weren’t prepared for
the variety of interpretations of
what was considered classic macaroni and cheese.
Some recipes called for unusual
cheeses (ricotta, mascarpone,
cottage cheese, Cheez Whiz and
canned nacho cheese sauce) and
exotic (gorgonzola and Roquefort)
and even disarming (“rat” cheese).
Some recipes felt a need to soup
up their sauce with canned chicken, celery or mushroom soups.
There were odd add-ins: chopped
pecans and chopped pimento,
mayonnaise, frozen spinach, a
can of diced tomatoes, hot dogs
and cubed tofu. There were shots
at elegance with additions of vermouth, white wine and truffle oil
(we can tell you now that truffle
oil, much too overworked by chefs,
does nothing to improve macaroni
and cheese). And there was the
alarming ingredient of a dash of
“tobacco,” although we’re sure it
was supposed to be “Tabasco.”
We sorted the recipes into four
categories: traditional or “homestyle”; recipes with meat (bacon,
pancetta, ham, etc.); luxury versions (an abundance of rich and
artisanal cheeses); and creative
recipes (those that combined ethnic flavors or unusual add-ins).
While there were many to admire among the groupings, some
recipes immediately stood out for
their ingredients, and for the sureness and clarity of their instructions. We baked so many dishes

CREATIVE FLAVORS
WINNER: LOADED
MACARONI & CHEESE
10 slices of bacon
16 oz elbow macaroni
1 stick of butter
1 C of whole milk
16 oz evaporated milk
Dash of salt
Dash of pepper
4 C of shredded cheddar
1 beaten egg
1
⁄4 C of diced green onions
1
⁄2 C of sour cream
1
⁄4 C of ranch dressing
Sprinkle of paprika
Heat oven to 400 degrees.
Fry bacon until crisp; crumble.
Set aside.
On low heat, melt butter. Add
all milks, salt and pepper. Once
it starts to bubble, add 3 3⁄4 cups
of cheese. Once all ingredients have melted, remove from
heat. Mix egg into the sauce.
Add green onions, bacon, sour
cream and ranch dressing. Set
aside.
Cook macaroni as directed on
package; drain. Add to cheese
sauce.
Spread macaroni and cheese
in a rectangular baking dish;
sprinkle top with remaining
cheese and paprika.
Cover with foil and place in
the oven until cheese on top is
melted. Remove foil and turn off
the oven; return the pan to the
(off, but still hot) oven for 5 more
minutes to brown the cheese on
top a little.
— Recipe by Isiah Thomas, of
The Woodlands, Texas

of macaroni and cheese, we were
convinced our co-workers, who
we looked to for feedback, would
accuse us of shortening their lives
with all the cheese and butter.
But the interesting thing about
macaroni and cheese is that even
middling versions have the ability
to hit the spot and satisfy. Good
versions immediately stood out.

What was learned
Before we get to the good,
though, a few observations about
deficiencies in some of the recipes:
• Almost across the board,
there was a tendency to under-salt.
We found a bit more salt woke
up cheese sauces that relied on
American, Colby and Velveeta.
• Recipes that called for more
than a couple of eggs were concerning. One recipe called for
eight eggs and produced a mac
’n’ cheese that was more like a
quiche. It also tasted overwhelmingly eggy — not the first flavor
you want from this dish.
• Dryness can easily sink a
mac ’n’ cheese recipe. Many recipes clearly needed more liquid.
If you’re concerned your cheese
sauce is too loose or that there’s
too much of it, that’s probably
not the case. Pasta can drink up
the sauce, and the oven can dry it
out. If anything, err on the side of
more liquid or more sauce.

What was liked
Now for the good news. Here’s
what we liked about each of the
best recipes:
• Mac with meat: James Gerstner’s recipe for Spicy Mac & Sausage shone for its abundance of
flavors. It wasn’t just the smoked

The Associated Press file photo

With reader input, the Houston Chronicle found four favorite
macaroni and cheese recipes, sorting them into four categories:
traditional or “homestyle” recipes; recipes with meat; luxury versions; and creative recipes (with unusual add-in ingredients).
sausage, but the kick of Louisiana hot sauce and the undertow
of pepper jack cheese. Even the
bread crumbs were kicked up a
notch with the addition of chili
powder. This was a lusty winner.
• Luxury mac: Martin Tomek’s
recipe is not for everyday eating.
In fact, it is so rich, you would
have to consider it a special-occasion dish. The cheese sauce is fit
for a king, using Gruyere, fontina,
sharp cheddar and Emmentaler
(a cow’s milk Swiss cheese). But
Tomek doesn’t stop there: There’s
bacon larded through his cavatappi noodles as well as bacon
drippings and parmesan cheese in
his panko bread topping, which we
found make a superior topping.
• Creative mac: We have to admit that we were skeptical about
Isiah Thomas’ Loaded Macaroni
& Cheese that called for ranch
dressing. But we were believers
after tasting this mac that combined the flavors of a loaded baked
potato with bacon, sour cream and

With oven rack in the middle, heat the oven to 400 degrees.
Melt 2 tablespoons of butter and toss with bread crumbs; set aside.
Bring 4 quarts water to a boil in a large pot. Stir in 1 tablespoon
salt and macaroni; cook until almost tender but still firm to the bite.
Drain and set aside. Wipe the pot dry, add the remaining six tablespoons butter and melt over medium heat. Stir in garlic, mustard
and cayenne. Cook until fragrant, about 30 seconds. Stir in flour
and cook until golden, about 1 minute. Slowly whisk in milk and
broth. Add nutmeg. Bring to a simmer. Cook, whisking often, until the mixture is slightly thickened, about 6 minutes. Remove from
heat, whisk in cheeses until completely melted. Season with salt
and pepper to taste. Stir macaroni until well combined.
Pour into a 9x13 baking dish. Sprinkle evenly with bread crumbs.
Bake until golden brown and bubbling around the edges, 25 to 30
minutes.
To make bread crumbs: Use good-quality white bread. Tear
pieces of bread into quarters, and pulse in food processor 8 or 9
times for coarse crumbs. One slice yields about 1 cup.
— Recipe by Hilary Purcell, of Houston

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cook bacon, drain pieces and
save drippings. Cook pasta according to directions on package.
Place a tablespoon of bacon drippings in a 4-quart saucepan on
medium; add onions. Sauté until soft. Add wine and reduce by 80
percent. Add butter and flour to make a roux; cook 6-7 minutes.
Add milk and cream; bring to a slight simmer, stirring frequently.
Add nutmeg, salt and pepper.
Reduce the heat to low and add cheeses; fold until all are melted. Add sliced green onion. In a large mixing bowl, combine cheese
sauce, macaroni and bacon. Pour the mixture into a greased 9x13
baking dish. Put the bread crumbs in a mixing bowl, and add Parmesan cheese, parsley, paprika, salt and pepper. Mix until well blended.
Mix the melted butter and bacon drippings together, and pour
over top of dry mix; stir until mixture is well coated. Sprinkle the
topping evenly over the top of the pasta mixture. Bake 30 minutes.
— Recipe by Martin Tomek, of Humble, Texas

shredded cheese. Two other things
Thomas’ recipe had going for it:
the use of evaporated milk (in addition to whole milk) that made for
a lusciously smooth sauce, and the
use of ranch dressing, sour cream,
bacon and green onion, which
loaded the dish with flavor.
• In the end, however, one
recipe stood out for its overall excellence. Hilary Purcell’s version
of classic homestyle mac hit all
the right notes: superior flavor,
excellent moisture from a spoton cheese sauce; perfect, gooey
mouth feel; handsome appearance. The standout attributes of
Purcell’s recipe were the use of
dried mustard, fresh garlic, cayenne pepper and freshly grated
nutmeg. She also incorporated
chicken broth in addition to whole
milk in her cheese sauce.
It’s the macaroni and cheese
that you envision when you think
of the best virtues of the dish. Not
only that, it would please kids as
well as fussy foodies.

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• What it is: Seven Asian countries — China, India, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Thailand and
Vietnam — star in this large,
handsome cookbook assembled
by California restaurateur Mai
Pham on behalf of the Culinary
Institute of America.
• Praise and quibbles: This work
is the second cookbook spawned
by a “World of Flavors” conference sponsored by the institute in
2007. You’ll find 125 recipes from
40 top chefs and food figures from
around the world. Essays offer the
essentials about each cuisine and
important food staples. Recipes
are clear and well-written, but you
have to know the basics of Asian
cooking — how to toast spices, for
example — to use this book most
effectively.
• Why you’ll like it: Given its
somewhat globe-girdling scope,
this book cannot be considered
the authoritative source for any
one cuisine; rather, it offers a
foretaste of what each culture
and each cuisine is about. Pham
does a good job pulling the book
together into a coherent whole. It’s
fun to compare and contrast the
various cooking traditions.

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The energy-efficient home of David Maul.

Don’t try
this at home
Sometimes home improvement
should be left to the experts
By Amy Hoak
MarketWatch

CHICAGO — Eager to save
money, homeowners are more
willing to get their hands dirty
with home-improvement projects these days. But the DIY
route isn’t always the safest or
cheapest.
“Especially with money being
so tight, it’s totally understandable that people want to take on
projects themselves that in other
periods they would have hired
someone to do,” said Meri-K Appy,
president of the Home Safety
Council, a Washington nonprofit
dedicated to preventing home-related injuries.
But how do you determine if
a project entails more than you
can realistically handle?
If you’re unsure about your
ability to finish a project correctly, get an expert opinion before
proceeding. Sometimes, you may
end up spending more money to
repair a bungled DIY job than if
you had hired someone to do it
from the start.
Here are a few occasions when
you may want to consider turning to a pro:

Safety is an issue
Tinkering with a home’s electric system can be risky business,
said Matt Knox, chief executive
of DiggersList.com, a construction classifieds Web site. Not
only could the do-it-yourselfer
risk electrocution, but doing a
job incorrectly could create a
safety hazard within the home’s
structure.
Some other jobs that involve
safety risks:
• Extending a gas line. “Do not
mess around with gas. ... If you’re
DIY, you probably don’t know
how to check for gas leaks,”
Knox said. A mistake there could
lead to an explosion or carbonmonoxide poisoning.
• Projects that involve heights.
Carefully assess projects that require you to be up high, whether
it’s roofing or pruning trees,
Appy said. “Do the cost/benefit
analysis up front and ask yourself, ‘How well trained am I to do
this, do I have the proper tools,
what is my physical well-being?’”
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• Projects that require power tools. Obviously, big power
tools, such as a circular saw,
can lead to serious injury or
even death if used improperly.

Water is involved
Leaks and water damage
can lead to more costly and
complicated repairs. If left unfixed, they can lead to mold —
which affects air quality and,
if found during an inspection,
can be a deal breaker on a
home sale.
Water-related projects don’t
have to strictly involve your
home’s pipes. Putting in a skylight might seem like a do-ityourself job you can handle.
Do it incorrectly, however, and
you could end up with a leaky
roof, water damage and mold.
“If you’re lucky and it leaks,
you will see the leak,” said
Knox. If you’re not lucky,
leaking can start inside the
ceiling and drip behind the
walls, causing damage to drywall and wooden beams.

Costs are high
Sometimes the costs of materials and the expense associated with making a mistake
are enough to make hiring an
expert a good idea.
A kitchen cabinet can cost
a couple hundred dollars, and
if you order incorrectly, there
might be a restocking fee and
special orders may be nonreturnable, said Mike Albrecht,
division director for Home
Depot’s installation business.
Being off on measurements
for granite countertops also
can be a costly flub.

Project is too big
If you’re planning on replacing all the windows in
your home or remodeling
your kitchen, think twice
about how much of the project
you want to take on yourself,
Albrecht said. Often, you can
leave the heavy lifting to the
experts, and work on the finishing touches, such as painting and tiling backsplashes,
he said.
In a bathroom, for example,
you might be comfortable
changing lighting fixtures
and medicine cabinets, painting and retiling, Knox said.
“If you mess up, there’s no
injury or damage,” he said.
“If it can do damage you can’t
see, have someone else do
that part.”
While putting in hardwood
or laminate flooring can be a
good do-it-yourself project, its
complexity will largely be determined by its scale.

• If you like your existing counter, but not the backsplash, it’s easy to update only the backsplash.
• Under-cabinet lighting adds atmosphere and highlights the backsplash.
• Use silicone to seal the gap where backsplash meets countertop to liquid-proof the connection.
• Like carpet samples, you may borrow tile samples from design stores to live with at home for a bit.

Backsplash
Continued from F1
“For every 10 backsplashes that
we install now, nine of them are
full height, going all the way up to
the bottom of the cabinets,” Fitton
said.
Hundreds of different glass
and ceramic tiles are available
in a wide variety of shapes, sizes
and colors. Browse in design and
home stores and online to explore
the possibilities.
Brilliant Environmental Building Products has been open for
two years in Bend, offering recycled glass tiles from Oceanside
Glasstile and Portland-based
Stardust Glass, among others.
Brilliant also carries Lumicor
and 3form recycled resin panels
that make interesting backsplashes with solid translucent colors,
patterns or embedded natural elements such as twigs and bamboo.
Recycled tiles are typically
more expensive than conventional ones, starting at about $20
per square foot versus $10, said
Swart.
A typical kitchen has about 30
square feet of backsplash area,
Fitton said, and the price can
range from $10 to $50 per square
foot or more, depending on how
many expensive decorative tiles
are used.
Matching a backsplash to the
kitchen decor and house colors
can be tricky. “Some people want
it to be more subtle; others want it
to stand out,” Swart said.
Fitton said she aims for the
backsplash to contrast with the
cabinets so it doesn’t blend in.
But if a client prefers a similar
color palette for both cabinets and
backsplash, Fitton suggests colored canisters on the counter to
add some visual interest.

Kitchen masterpiece
The backsplash area behind
the stove offers more space to get
creative.
For people who want to make
a bold artistic statement, and
who have some money to spend,

there’s the option of commissioning a custom, fine-art painting.
Bend artist Annie Ferder has
created several local kitchen
paintings, which take months to
complete and cost in the range of
$5,000 to $10,000.
Ferder said her clients tend to

be interested in Old World-style
art, so she paints Dutch mastersinspired fruit and vegetable
still lifes. Ferder paints on MDF
particleboard in her studio, then
the painting is installed on-site.
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the tile, the granite, the woodwork and the colors in the room.
In a new home, I meet with the
builder, the electrician and the
cabinetmaker because the painting has to fit in there properly,”
she said.
A work of fine art near a hot,
steamy stove didn’t make sense
until Ferder explained why acrylic
paint is perfect for a kitchen.
“It dries so hard you can use
soap and water to wash it down.
Because I live in this town, I’m an
‘artist on call.’ If there’s a problem,
I’ll come with my paint and fix it,
like a doctor on call,” Ferder said.
She also said she can seal the
painting.
Some of Ferder’s clients protect
their paintings with non-glare
glass or Plexiglas.
Tile or paint, ceramic or recycled resin — if you can decide
what you like best, you’ll have a
backsplash that not only does its
job of helping keep your kitchen
clean, but will make you proud of
its stylish looks.

Courtesy Annie Ferder

Bend artist Annie Ferder painted this custom acrylic painting as a backsplash behind a customer’s
stove. With acrylic paint, “it dries so hard you can use soap and water to wash it down,” she says.

It seems as if no matter the size
of our homes, we always need
(or want) more closet or storage
space. But in the absence of that
extra room, you can always use
baskets, like I do.
It’s the mission of the Blessing
Basket Project (blessingbasket
.org) “to reduce poverty in devel-

oping countries by paying prosperity wages for artisan products.” Those products include
woven baskets, bowls, fans and
hats, among other things, from
Bangladesh (made of date palm
leaf and sea grass); Ghana (made
of elephant grass); Madagascar
(made of Mahampy, aka sedge);
and Uganda (made of banana
leaf and sisal). It takes weavers

between one and two days to
weave these works of art, which
are unique and affordable.
All of a sudden I came to the realization that I have one in almost
every room. A basket, that is. I
have a fruit basket on the kitchen
counter. Another two baskets
store my spices and condiments in
the pantry. Instead of trash cans
in the bathrooms, I prefer small

baskets. Tiny ones filled with
potpourri double as decor and air
freshener on my bathroom counter. My bath products in the linen
closet also are in baskets. And
proof of how far I’ve gone with
these as a storage solution is that
I even shopped for a manly basket
to put a few of my husband’s personal products in. He resisted at
first but ended up falling for it!

These spinach sprouts
were planted
using the
seed “disk”
technique,
which makes
planting tiny
seeds easier.

Continued from F1
I also feel adamant about
supporting seed suppliers
who have joined the Safe
Seed Pledge, which in part
reads: “We pledge that we do
not knowingly buy or sell genetically engineered or modified seeds or plants.” For a
list of seed companies that
have signed the Safe Seed
Pledge, visit hortmag.com/
article/safeseedpledge.

(Minneapolis) Star Tribune

Q:
A:

So how do you design,
post-Vegas?
We’re all spatially aware.
We know what it takes to
feel comfortable in our living
rooms. I’m just translating that
to the garden. You have to create
a space that’s so comfortable, so
private, that people feel like they
could go out and walk around
naked in their garden.

Q:
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By Norman Winter
McClatchy-Tribune News Service

It seems today everyone is
searching for those plants that
perform from the minute they
are planted until killing frost
takes them out. If you find yourself in that group, then you’ll
welcome Purple Knight and
Brazilian Red Hot, both varieties of Alternanthera. You’ll also
relish in the fact that these are
only two of several new varieties reaching your local garden
center in the last few years.
Botanically speaking, they
are both Alternanthera dentata.
If you are not familiar with that
name, then consider them to be
like Joseph’s Coats on steroids.
The name Brazilian Red Hot
indeed gives the clue they are
native to South America and
Mexico.
These plants will be riveting
in your garden because of their
eye-catching foliage. In the case
of Purple Knight, the leaves are
such a deep dark purple they
would almost pass for black.
With this color, you’ll be able to

combine just about any other color of flower or foliage and have
them literally dazzle. One striking partnership I had the opportunity to photograph had them
growing behind a drift of Torch
Red Ember gaillardia. The fiery
red and yellow stood out against
the sea of dark black purple.
The Brazilian Red Hot garnered awards in almost every
trial in the country. The leaves
are smaller than Purple Knight,
but the iridescent shades of red
hot pink and magenta make
this plant look like it is on fire.
In the trials I worked with, the
August sun and heat only made
it ever more sizzling. I’ve seen
great combinations with yellow
lantanas, and a gaudy but dashing partnership with Blue Wave
petunias. Almost any color will
work with this plant other than
orange. Also look for a selection
called Summer Flame with the
same intense colors.
I compared these to Joseph’s
Coats, and some sell them under that name. Expect them
to easily reach 24 to 36 inches,

which will make them great as
a backdrop for your other flowers. Space your plants about
18 to 24 inches apart, and they
will quickly fill in. They will
fit in any style of garden from
grandma’s cottage to the look of
the islands.
Like the small Joseph’s Coats
you may be most familiar
with, they do need fertile, welldrained soil. They can take anything summer can dish out, but
they do not want to sit in wet,
soggy soil. They can still perform with a little midafternoon
shade, but they reach their true
potential in the full sun.
These are very low-maintenance plants. Feed your plants
with light applications of a
slow-release fertilizer, about
three times during the summer
and early fall. Though they are
drought tolerant, supplemental water during prolonged dry
periods will keep them looking
their best. If at any time you
don’t like their size or shape,
feel free to cut back. New
growth will quickly begin.

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A planting bag made from
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could help protect roots
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Liz Douville can be reached at
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TOOLS

How did you get into
gardening?
I grew up in the Australian outback. My dad was
a miner, and my mom was a
passionate gardener. She had
the ability to grow roses in the
desert soil. It wasn’t until after
I dabbled in show business in
Las Vegas that I began to take
what I learned about lights, sets
and staging, and apply it to the
garden.

Another item that piqued my
interest was the grow bags made
from unbreakable, lightweight
patented fabric, not plastic. Gar-

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ment paging through my stash
of catalogs, I realized there are
tools, supplies and kitchen garden goodies to fulfill your every need. It is worse than a toy
catalog at Christmas. On second
thought, I guess they are our toy
catalogs, and we want one of
everything.

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Breathable bags

deners Supply lists theirs as a
feltlike fabric that breathes. They
have developed sizes for different
crops from lettuce to potatoes.
Territorial Seed has a similar
product called Smart Pots in sizes that are smaller. The containers are reusable. With the trouble
I have from my underground
critters, I am tempted to use the
larger size for some potatoes.
After all my hours of enjoy-

SEEDS

So you’re making plants
exotic?
We’re all pretty much experts on what grows on
our street, but to take the blinkers off and see what’s growing
in the rest of the world, that’s
exciting. Plants really give a
sense of place, and a sense of
escape.

Available through Johnny’s
Seed are Herb Disks, 4-inch,
preseeded rounds intended to be
placed in a 6-inch-round pot. Given a window sill with sufficient
light, you could grow them indoors, or the pots could be placed
outdoors on a patio table.
I decided if I could make seed
tapes, I could make “herb disks.”

So I will give it a try experimenting with a biodegradable paper
towel and just an ordinary paper
towel — to be blunt, the cheap
kind. I also want to try using coffee filters, brown and white.
According to the catalog, depending on the herb, the seed
count could vary. A parsley disk
contains 45 seeds, the thyme disk
75 seeds and the chive disk 100
seeds.
I have heard good reports on
the Topsy Turvy method of planting tomatoes, which uses a special
planter to hang the plants upsidedown. I may add that to the list of
new methods. I have grown cherry tomatoes in hanging baskets
but never upside-down.

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So how do you make geraniums sexy to young
people?
That’s one of the reasons I
wanted to do “The Outdoor
Room.” It combines gardening
with travel, and then I eat all
these exotic foods. Our show appeals to travelers, foodies and to
young people. I’m trying to harvest a whole new audience for
gardening shows.

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Doesn’t sound like an easy
task.
No, it’s hard because 25
years ago, it was a real
grandma’s sport. So, how does
this guy from Aus make geraniums sexy to young people?
That’s what you’ve got to do. If
you can get your young people
interested, they’ll become real
ambassadors for gardening —
and for the planet.

Photos by Rob Kerr / The Bulletin

Liz Douville glues spinach seeds to a piece of paper towel, creating a seed “disk” that can be planted in a pot.

BIRDBATHS

You’ve been credited with
making gardening sexy.
Have you?
Well, I’ve given it a bloody
good bash.

Catalogs provide me with
more than detailed variety and
culture information. I page
through, becoming familiar
with new tools and supplies.
Each year, those sections become more extensive. Propagation heat mats, soil-heating
cables, automatic vent and
window openers for greenhouses and cold frames, copper plant tags and a variety of
potting supplies are available
with just the click of the mouse
and a credit card. The satisfaction for me is to learn about
some of the newest products
available and then find them
locally.
My friends and anyone else
who will listen know I am not
a fan of peat pots for starting
seeds. I never have good luck
with them decomposing in the
soil, let alone the roots breaking through the pots into the
soil. I am sure it is just me and
my conservative nature with
regard to irrigating.
That said, I am intrigued
with the cow pots that were
introduced to the market last
year. If you are a fan of TV’s
“Dirty Jobs,” you may have
seen them featured in a segment. Two Connecticut dairy
farmers created these 100
percent biodegradable starting/transplant pots made from
fully composted cow manure.
When planted, the pots rapidly disintegrate, adding nutrients to the soil. Redmond
Greenhouse will be one of the
local suppliers.
I have made many feet of
seed tapes over the years, especially to make growing carrots an easier process. A little
Elmer’s Glue, stripes of biodegradable paper the length you
want for a row, plus a chilly,
windy day, and you have the
perfect combination for an
indoor session of producing
seed tapes. Place the seeds according to the spacing on the
packet, adhering to the paper
with a tiny dab of glue, and
you won’t have to perform
seedling triage on your root
crops.
Seed tapes have long since
been dropped from the pages
of the catalogs. They were expensive and, as in our household, I think many gardeners
figured out how to make them
at home.
This year, I spotted something new that would have
more appeal to the way many
garden these days in containers or with limited space.

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Jamie Durie’s a globe-trotting,
jet-setting celebrity horticulturist. Maybe the only one.
The former stripper has been
a regular on “Oprah,” designed
for Charlize Theron, trained on
climate change with Al Gore and
hosted a forum on sustainability
with the Dalai Lama.
He also went “Dancing With
the Stars” (he made it through
seven of 10 eliminations) and
hosted the venerable PBS show,
“The Victory Garden” (the 32nd
season).
He’s written five books (all
garden-related), created his own
line of outdoor furnishings and
garden tools, and founded a
landscape
company,
Patio,
which is designing gardens in 11
countries.
This year, he launched yet
another venture: a new HGTV
show, “The Outdoor Room With
Jamie Durie.”
Durie, 40, an Aussie with a
killer smile, took a break from
scuba diving in Barbados (no
kidding) to talk about what he
learned in Las Vegas, why he’s
into native plants and his hopes
for his travelogue/glam garden
show.

Hope Dailey, of Sykesville,
Md., wrote in on behalf of a friend
about a recipe for coconut pound
cake. She said her friend’s mother-in-law made
this cake with
lots of eggs,
butter and frozen coconut,
and she thinks
it may have
been a Southern
recipe.
Dotty Rather,
of Knoxville,
Tenn., sent in a recipe for coconut
cream cheese pound cake, which
she said came from an older issue
of Southern Living. The cake is
rich, dense and delicious. It is rife
with coconut flavor and needs no
frosting or glaze.
RECIPE REQUESTS
• Judy Schwalben, of Santa
Rosa, Calif., is looking for the recipe for a dessert she made “eons
ago” that she thinks was called
Danish apple dessert. It was made
with applesauce, condensed milk,
lemon rind, separated eggs and
bread crumbs.
• Nancy Hawkins, of Oliver
Springs, Tenn., is looking for a
recipe for a chocolate cake called
“Aussie dump cake.” She said the
cake was actually just dumped out
of the pan and was a mixture of
gooey melted chocolate and cake.

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Can I freeze fresh watermelon and cantaloupe for
use later in fruit salad without it
getting mushy?
Unfortunately, there’s not
much you can do about the
mushy-melon problem. Without
getting too technical, there is liquid in the cells of all fruits and vegetables. When the liquid freezes,
it forms ice crystals, which break
the cell walls and allow what’s in
the cells to come out. Some fruits
contain more than 90 percent water. When that fruit is thawed, it’s
going to slump and lose its shape.
For some uses, soft fruit isn’t
terrible. If you freeze strawberries
to purée in a blender for a smoothie or peaches to bake into a pie, it
doesn’t matter that the fruit is soft.
But fruit you want to put in a fruit
salad would be unpleasantly soft
and mushy if you freeze it first. So
the best choice for melon is to eat
your fill in the summer or save it
for smoothies in the winter.

A:

E-mail questions about
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Terra cotta without the wait
Martha Stewart Living

Tips and tricks

Like many objects of value,
terra-cotta pots take on character as they age. The clay darkens, assuming a whitish cast
from fertilizers and the minerals
in water. When kept in the shade
and watered frequently, the pots
gradually acquire a verdant
sheen of algae or moss. But you
don’t have to wait for that look.
These six easy techniques
help pots undergo a transformation within weeks. Start now,
and you’ll enjoy their vintage
charm this summer and for
many seasons to come.

Although each technique will
yield unique results, a few
common truths apply to the
various methods.
• Ingredients: It’s fine to use dairy
products that aren’t fresh or have
expired. Low-fat products will work,
but higher-fat versions tend to be
thicker and therefore less likely to
drip off.
• Application: To achieve an
authentic appearance, vary the
thickness of the materials and the
direction of application. Look to true
aged pots for inspiration.
• Storage sites: Shaded locations
are ideal for most pots while they
To induce algae growth,
“age.” Do not stack the pots. Spray
them occasionally with water, or place soak a pot in water while
letting it sit in the sun.
them where rain can reach them.
Pots coated with food products may
smell strongly for a few days after the
ingredients have been applied; keep them away from living areas.
• Waiting: The longer a pot sits, the more pronounced the effect will be.
It’s up to you to decide when you think it’s ready. Most pots will continue to
“age” even as they are being used. Be creative. Try combining methods for
different effects.

Fertilizer
Accelerate the appearance of
white deposits by filling the pot
with a highly concentrated fertilizer solution for a few weeks.
Pots aged this way are safe for
plants because the salts won’t
wash from the pot to the soil.
• Tools and materials: wine
cork, candle and water-soluble
fertilizer.
• Directions: Plug pot’s drainage hole with a wine cork. (A
standard cork will fit a 10-inch
pot perfectly. For smaller pots,
whittle the cork; for larger ones,
slice additional corks to fit, and
wedge in place.)
Light candle. Let wax drip
over cork on outside of pot to
seal. Let cool.
Fill pot with water. (Hard water accelerates the aging process.)
Add five times more fertilizer
than package directions recommend. The longer the pots sit,
the more dramatic the effect.
Remove water, wax and cork.

Yogurt
One of the most natural-looking patinas can be achieved by
simply slathering plain yogurt
on a new pot. Yogurt applied to
dry pots yields more dramatic results. For a subtler look, first soak
pots in water for 15 minutes.
• Tools and materials: plain
yogurt and a 2-inch foam brush.
• Directions: Stir yogurt.
Use brush to coat surface
of pot with yogurt, covering it
completely.
Set aside in a shaded place until pot achieves the desired look,

Photos by Raymond Hom / Martha Stewart Living

Whether applying lime, yogurt or buttermilk and moss, there’s
more than one way to achieve the warm and appealing patina of
aged terra cotta.
at least one month.

Buttermilk and moss
Combining buttermilk and
moss to encourage moss growth
is a common tactic. The moss
serves to hold the runny buttermilk in place and vary the
texture, as well as to promote
growth.
• Tools and materials: moss
(or sheet moss), buttermilk and
2-inch foam brush.
• Directions: If you’ve gathered your own moss, remove as
much soil as possible. Tear moss
into small pieces, removing materials such as bark and pine
needles.
Pour buttermilk into a bowl,
add moss and combine.
Use brush to paint the mix-

Cuckoo for cabbage
By Stephanie
Witt Sedgwick

just as fond of other
small Chinese bok
The Washington Post
choys, but I’ve only
I’m a cabbage
recently been able
lover, so any time
to find them outside
I see a new variety
of Asian markets.
of cabbage at the marAlso look for baby bok
ket it’s bound to make its
choy’s cousins: petite
way to my dinner table.
choy sum (the heart
I’m particularly fond of
of full-size large
the Chinese cabbages,
bok choy) and petite
especially the baby or Bok choy, a
Shanghai cabbage (a
petite versions.
Chinese variety bok choy that’s even
Baby bok choy is
smaller than baby bok
a favorite. I love the
choy). They’re all bok
tender leaves and the slightly choys, which is a little confusbitter taste of the stalks. I’m ing, but they’re all good.

Position a steamer over several inches of water in a saucepan
or wok and heat over medium-high heat. When the water comes
to a boil, add the cabbages, cover and steam for 3 to 4 minutes,
until they are brightly colored and just tender. You will probably
need to do that in batches so the cabbages are not crowded in
the steamer. As the cabbages are done, transfer them to a large
platter, arranging them in a single layer.
Heat the olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Add the
scallions and ginger; cook for 1 to 2 minutes, stirring, until the
scallions start to soften. Add the bourbon, whiskey or sherry and
cook for 30 seconds. Add the broth, toasted sesame oil, sugar
and hoisin sauce. Stir to combine, and bring to a boil.
Whisk together the cornstarch and water in a small bowl until
well incorporated, then add the mixture to the skillet. Once it returns to a boil, cook for 1 to 2 minutes, until it has thickened. Remove from the heat. Taste, and adjust the seasoning as desired.
Pour the sauce over the steamed cabbages. Garnish with sesame seeds to taste, if using. Serve hot or at room temperature.
Note: Toast the sesame seeds in a dry skillet over medium
heat for 3 to 5 minutes, stirring or shaking them frequently, just
until fragrant and lightly browned.

ture over pot.
Set aside in a shaded place until
pot achieves the desired look.
If necessary, use a metal-bristle brush to remove any heavy
clumps of moss.

Clay soil
It’s easy to make a pot appear
as if it had been unearthed in an
archaeological dig. Just apply soil
found in your backyard. Moist
soils with high clay content are
ideal, since they adhere to terra
cotta best.
• Tools and materials: clay soil
and flexible wire brush.
• Directions: Rub soil over
surface of pot, moistening the
soil with a little water if it doesn’t
stick.
Place pot in a shaded area for at

Sand pot in random directions,
wiping dust frequently, until you
have achieved the desired look.

Lime

Water and sunlight

This method provides instant
gratification. The lime solution
quickly tones down the harsh orange of many new pots.
• Tools and materials: hydrated lime (available at hardware
stores), natural-bristle paintbrush, spray bottle and 150-grit
sandpaper.
• Directions: Dissolve 1 cup
hydrated lime in 2 cups water,
stirring until no clumps remain.
(This amount will age several
small pots or two large ones. You
can make varying quantities of
the solution, but always use 1 part
lime to 2 parts water.)
Using random strokes, brush
pot with lime solution, applying
thickly in some areas, and thinly
in others to simulate the subtle
streaks of old pots.
Fill spray bottle with water, set
it on the “stream” setting, and coat
pot in various spots while lime is
still wet. This thins the coating for
a more natural look. Let dry.

Sometimes, the simplest methods bring the most satisfying results. Soak a pot in a tub of water
until algae grows on its surface.
Algae grows best in the sun, so be
sure that vessels sit in bright locations and that water is replenished
as it evaporates.
Questions should be
addressed to Ask Martha, c/o
Letters Department, Martha
Stewart Living, 601 West 26th
Street, 9th floor, New York, NY
10001. Questions may also be
sent by e-mail to: mslletters@
marthastewart.com. Please
include your name, address and
daytime telephone number.
Questions of general interest
will be answered in this column;
Martha Stewart regrets that
unpublished letters cannot be
answered individually. For more
information on the topics covered
in the Ask Martha column, visit
www.marthastewart.com.

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Since September 29, 1991,
advertising for used woodstoves has been limited to
models which have been
certified by the Oregon Department of Environmental
Quality (DEQ) and the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as having
met smoke emission standards. A certified woodstove
can be identified by its certification label, which is permanently attached to the
stove. The Bulletin will not
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Fuel and Wood

WHEN BUYING
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Pasture For Rent, Powell Bute,
33 acres of water, please call
541-548-7922 after 5 p.m.
for more information.
Unique Alpaca Apparel. We’re
located just outside of Sisters on Hwy 20. Call
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well as making outbound calls to customers to ensure customer satisfaction of newspaper delivery, to secure payments
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attitude, and strong service/team orientation; must have accurate typing, computer entry experience and the ability to
multi-task. Most work is done via telephone, so strong communication skills are a must.
Work shift:
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Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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The Ranch is accepting
applications for a seasonal
Sous Chef. Need dedicated
individual who possesses
good supervisory and
leadership skills that has an
extensive knowledge of food
preparation. Shifts will
include weekends and holidays.
Apply on-line at
www.blackbutteranch.com.
BBR is a drug free work
place. EOE

The Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center is seeking a
BE/BC Family Practice or Internal Medicine Physician to serve
as the group practice manager at the Bend Community Based
Outpatient Clinic. The Bend Clinic offers primary care, mental health, eye care, and some specialty services to over 5,000
veterans in the region. The Clinic was recognized as the Most
Outstanding VA Primary Care Clinic in the nation in 2008, and
is part of the Portland VA Medical Center’s practice of over 50
primary care providers serving veterans in Oregon and
Southwest Washington. For job specific questions related to
this position, contact John Shea, Operations Manager at the
clinic, at 541-647-5201, or email him at john.shea3@va.gov.

WINNING TEAM OF SALES/PROMOTIONPROFESSIONALS ARE MAKING AN AVERAGE OF $400 - $800 PER WEEK
DOING SPECIAL EVENT, TRADE SHOW,
RETAIL & GROCERY STORE PROMOTIONS
WHILE
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Applications from minorities and women are encouraged. Applicants must be US citizens and hold a current, active and
unrestricted physician license in a State, Territory or Commonwealth of the U.S. or the District of Columbia. The VA
offers a competitive salary and benefits package consistent
with community practice standards. A recruitment bonus may
be available to highly qualified candidates. This position will
require a background check and a pre-employment physical
and may require a pre-employment drug test.

FOR THE CHANCE
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companies offering loans or
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questions, we suggest you
consult your attorney or call
CONSUMER HOTLINE,
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We suggest you call the State
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MEDICAL

CRUISE THROUGH Classified when you're in the
market for a new or used
car.

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applying for jobs online and
never provide personal
information to any source
you may not have researched
and deemed to be reputable.
Use extreme caution when responding to ANY online employment ad from
out-of-state.

Loans and Mortgages

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The Ranch is accepting
applications for a seasonal
Catering supervisor. Job
requires exceptional customer
service skills. Must enjoy
working with people, be a
good organizer and
supervisor. This self-starter
must be able to work any day
of the week. Oversee the
fast paced operations of
special events. Banquet and
catering experience
preferred. This is an exiting job
planning and carrying out
banquets for groups of 50 to
150 guests. Should have a
basic knowledge of
computers and word
processing. Responsible to
train and supervise waitstaff.
Must have current OLCC
server permit and Deschutes
County food handler card.
Benefits include golf
privileges and 30% discount on
food and merchandise.
Apply on-line at
www.blackbutteranch.com
BBR is a drug free work place.
EOE.

Ads published in "Employment
Opportunities" include employee and independent positions. Ads for positions that
require a fee or upfront investment must be stated.
With any independent job
opportunity, please investigate thoroughly.

The Ranch is accepting
applications for a seasonal
supervisor at our Big Meadow
Golf Course Restaurant.
Applicant should have 1 year
restaurant management
experience with a highly
successful track record. Ability
to use computers and
excellent customer service
skills a must. This
self-starter must be able to
work any day of the week.
Oversee daily operations of
the Dining Room and fill
hostess and server positions
when needed. Responsible
to train and supervise
waitstaff. Must have current
OLCC server permit and
Deschutes County food
handler card. Benefits include
golf privileges and 30%
discount on food and
merchandise. Apply con-line at
www.blackbutteranch.com
BBR is a drug free work
place. EOE

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Houses for Rent
LOWER, MORE AFFORDABLE
Redmond
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sizes and locations from
$250 per month, including
utilities. 541-317-8717

NOTICE: Oregon state law
requires
anyone
who
contracts for construction
work to be licensed with the
Construction
Contractors
Board (CCB).
An active
license means the contractor
is bonded and insured.
Verify the contractor’s CCB
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ALL PHASES of Drywall.
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advertise to perform Land
scape Construction which in
cludes:
planting,
decks,
fences, arbors, water-fea
tures, and installation, repair
of irrigation systems to be li
censed with the Landscape
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cluded in all advertisements
which indicate the business
has a bond, insurance and
workers compensation for
their employees. For your
protection call 503-378-5909
or
use
our
website:
www.lcb.state.or.us to check
license status before con
tracting with the business.
Persons doing landscape
maintenance do not require a
LCB license.

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Nice clean and fully
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3 year, 36,000 mile
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Call The Guru:
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FOR SUPPLYING AND
HAULING OF
CRUSHED, PRE-COATED ROCK
FOR CHIP SEAL
Sealed bids will be received
at the Deschutes County
Road Department, 61150 SE
27th Street, Bend, Oregon
97702, until but not after,
2:00 p.m. on March 24, 2010
at which time and place all
bids for the above-entitled
public works project will be
publicly opened and read
aloud.
The contract calls for supplying and hauling 13,400
Tons of 3/8" to #8 and/or
1/4" to #10 asphalt coated
crushed rock to specified
stockpiles sites in the Redmond, Bend, Tumalo, and
LaPine areas of Deschutes
County.
Specifications and other bid
documents may be inspected and obtained at the
Deschutes County Road Department, 61150 S.E. 27th
Street, Bend, Oregon 97702.
Inquiries pertaining to these
specifications shall be directed to Roger Olson, Operations Manager, telephone
(541) 322-7120.
Bids shall be made on the
forms furnished by the
County, incorporating all
contract documents, addressed and mailed or delivered to Tom Blust, Department Director, 61150 SE
27th Street, Bend, Oregon
97702 in a sealed envelope
plainly marked "BID FOR
CRUSHED,
PRE-COATED
ROCK FOR CHIP SEAL" and
the name and address of the
bidder.
Each bid must contain a
statement as to whether the
bidder is a resident bidder, as
defined in ORS 279A.120.
Vendors shall use recyclable
products to the maximum
extent economically feasible
in the performance of the
contract work set forth in this
document.
Deschutes County may reject
any bid not in compliance
with all prescribed bidding
procedures and requirements, and may reject for
good cause any or all bids
upon a finding of Deschutes
County it is in the public interest to do so. The protest
period for this procurement
is seven (7) calendar days.
TOM BLUST
Department Director
PUBLISHED:
THE BEND BULLETIN:
March 9, 2010 and
March 16, 2010
Legal Notice
NOTICE OF INTENT TO AWARD
SOLE SOURCE CONTRACT
For CAD-to-CAD Interface and
Interoperability Project
The Board of County Commissioners for Deschutes
County, Oregon, will consider whether to award Executive Information Services,
Inc. (EIS) the contract for
the above-referenced project.
The goods and services to be
acquired are: EIS CAD M2
adapter, server equipment,
EIS CAD mapping, EIS CAD
interface development, licensing and installation.
The Board of County Commissioners
will
decide
whether the requirements to
award the contract to EIS,
Inc. based on sole source
procurement are met.
This notice is based upon Oregon Administrative Rule
(OAR) 137-047-0275 Affected or aggrieved persons
may protest the County's intent to award the contract as
sole source procurement to
the Board of County Commissioners of Deschutes
County, Oregon at 1300 NW
Wall St. Suite 200, Bend, OR
97701 within seven (7) days
after the first publication
date of this Notice of Intent
to Award Sole Source Contract. The seven (7) day protest period will expire at 5:00
PM on Tuesday, March 9,
2010.

this RFP should be submitted via email to:
Leo Birbilas,
Sr. Consultant,
RCC Consultants, Inc.
LBirbilas@RCC.com.
The District may reject any
proposal not in compliance
with prescribed procedures
and requirements and may
reject for good cause any and
all proposals upon a finding
of the County that it is in the
public interest to do so. This
solicitation is governed by
the
Oregon
Attorney
General's Model Public Contract Rules. The protest period for the solicitation is five
(5) days after the date of notice of intent to award the
contract.
Deschutes County 911
Service District
Rick Silbaugh,
Public Safety System Manager
LEGAL NOTICE
TRUSTEE'S NOTICE OF SALE
Loan No: 0593320302 T.S.
No.: OR-234839-C Reference
is made to that certain deed
made by, GARY L. OLDHAM
and LORA L. OLDHAM as
Grantor to AMERITITLE, as
trustee, in favor of "MERS"
MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC
REGISTRATION SYSTEMS,
INC., SOLELY AS NOMINEE
FOR LENDER GMAC MORTGAGE CORPORATION, as
Beneficiary, dated
5/31/2006, recorded
5/31/2006, in official
records of Deschutes County,
Oregon in book/reel/volume
No. at page No. , fee/file/instrument/microfile/reception No. 2006-37791 (indicated which), covering the
following described real
property situated in said
County and State, to-wit:
APN: 149431 LOT FOUR
HUNDRED THIRTY (430),
TOLLGATE EIGHTH ADDITION, DESCHUTES COUNTY,
OREGON. Commonly known
as: 14852 DOUBLETREE SISTERS, OREGON 97759-9532
Both the beneficiary and the
trustee have elected to sell
the said real property to satisfy the obligations secured
by said trust deed and notice
has been recorded pursuant
to Section 86.735(3) of Oregon Revised Statutes: the
default for which the foreclosure is made is the grantor's:
Unpaid principal balance of
$399,200.00; plus accrued
interest plus impounds and /
or advances which became
due on 6/1/2009 plus late
charges, and all subsequent
installments of principal, interest, balloon payments,
plus impounds and/or advances and late charges that
become payable. Monthly
Payment $2,393.68 Monthly
Late Charge $97.72 By this
reason of said default the
beneficiary has declared all
obligations secured by said
deed of trust immediately
due and payable, said sums
being the following, to-wit:
The sum of $399,200.00 together with interest thereon
at the rate of 5.875% per annum from 5/1/2009 until
paid; plus all accrued late
charges thereon; and all
trustee's fees, foreclosure
costs and any sums advanced by the beneficiary
pursuant to the terms of said
deed of trust. Whereof, notice hereby is given that LSI
TITLE COMPANY OF OREGON, LLC, the undersigned
trustee will on 5/7/2010 at
the hour of 11:00 AM, Standard of Time, as established
by section 187.110, Oregon
Revised Statues, at Front
entrance of the Courthouse,
1164 N.W. Bond Street,
Bend, Oregon County of Deschutes, State of Oregon, sell
at public auction to the highest bidder for cash the interest in the said described real
property which the grantor
had or had power to convey
at the time of the execution
by him of the said trust deed,
together with any interest

which the grantor or his successors in interest acquired
after the execution of said
trust deed, to satisfy the
foregoing obligations thereby
secured and the costs and
expenses of sale, including a
reasonable charge by the
trustee. Notice is further
given that any person named
in Section 86.753 of Oregon
Revised Statutes has the
right to have the foreclosure
proceeding dismissed and
the trust deed reinstated by
payment to the beneficiary of
the entire amount then due
(other than such portion of
said principal as would not
then be due had no default
occurred), together with the
costs, trustee's and attorney's
fees and curing any other
default complained of in the
Notice of Default by tendering the performance required under the obligation
or trust deed, at any time
prior to five days before the
date last set for sale. In construing this notice, the masculine gender includes the
feminine and the neuter, the
singular includes plural, the
word "grantor" includes any
successor in interest to the
grantor as well as any other
persons owing an obligation,
the performance of which is
secured by said trust deed,
the words "trustee" and
â€˜beneficiary" include their
respective successors in interest, if any. Dated:
12/17/2009 LSI TITLE
COMPANY OF OREGON, LLC
C/O Executive Trustee Services, LLC at 2255 North
Ontario Street, Suite 400
Burbank, California
91504-3120 Sale Line:
714-730-2727 Signature By:
Cindy Sandoval Authorized
Signatory ASAP# 3383142
02/16/2010, 02/23/2010,
03/02/2010, 03/09/2010
LEGAL NOTICE
TRUSTEE'S NOTICE OF SALE
T.S. No.: T10-59352-OR Reference is made to that certain deed made by, KEAN L.
DILLON, CINDY D. DILLON
as Grantor to WESTERN
TITLE AND ESCROW COMPANY, as trustee, in favor of
"MERS" IS MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION
SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary, dated 08-17-2006, recorded 08-28-2006, in official records of DESCHUTES
County, Oregon in
book/reel/volume No. at
page No. , fee/file/instrument/microfile/reception
No. 200658719 (indicated
which), covering the following described real property
situated in said County and
State, to-wit: APN: 126968
LOT 49, BLOCK 3, LAZY
RIVER SOUTH, DESCHUTES
COUNTY, OREGON. Commonly known as: 16767
DONNER PLACE LA PINE, OR
97739 Both the beneficiary
and the trustee have elected
to sell the said real property
to satisfy the obligations secured by said trust deed and
notice has been recorded
pursuant to Section
86.735(3) of Oregon Revised
Statutes: the default for
which the foreclosure is
made is the grantor's: INSTALLMENT OF PRINCIPAL
AND INTEREST PLUS IMPOUNDS AND / OR ADVANCES WHICH BECAME
DUE ON 11/01 2009 PLUS
LATE CHARGES, AND ALL
SUBSEQUENT INSTALLMENTS OF PRINCIPAL, INTEREST, BALLOON PAYMENTS, PLUS IMPOUNDS
AND/OR ADVANCES AND
LATE CHARGES THAT BECOME PAYABLE. Monthly
Payment $2,531.25 Monthly
Late Charge $0.00 By this
reason of said default the
beneficiary has declared all
obligations secured by said
deed of trust immediately
due and payable, said sums
being the following, to-wit:
The sum of $450,000.00 together with interest thereon
at the rate of 6.75% per annum from 08-30-2009 until
paid; plus all accrued late
charges thereon; and all

trustee's fees, foreclosure
costs and any sums advanced by the beneficiary
pursuant to the terms of said
deed of trust. Whereof, notice hereby is given that
FIRST AMERICAN TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY, the undersigned trustee will on
06-28-2010 at the hour of
11:00 AM, Standard of Time,
as established by section
187.110, Oregon Revised
Statues, at FRONT ENTRANCE OF THE COURTHOUSE, 1164 N.W. BOND
STREET, BEND, OREGON
County of DESCHUTES, State
of Oregon, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for
cash the interest in the said
described real property
which the grantor had or had
power to convey at the time
of the execution by him of
the said trust deed, together
with any interest which the
grantor or his successors in
interest acquired after the
execution of said trust deed,
to satisfy the foregoing obligations thereby secured and
the costs and expenses of
sale, including a reasonable
charge by the trustee. Notice
is further given that any person named in Section 86.753
of Oregon Revised Statutes
has the right to have the
foreclosure proceeding dismissed and the trust deed
reinstated by payment to the
beneficiary of the entire
amount then due (other than
such portion of said principal
as would not then be due had
no default occurred), together with the costs,
trustee's and attorney's fees
and curing any other default
complained of in the Notice
of Default by tendering the
performance required under
the obligation or trust deed,
at any time prior to five days
before the date last set for
sale. In construing this notice, the masculine gender
includes the feminine and the
neuter, the singular includes
plural, the word "grantor" includes any successor in interest to the grantor as well
as any other persons owing
an obligation, the performance of which is secured by
said trust deed, the words
"trustee" and "beneficiary" include their respective successors m interest, if any. For
sales information, please
contact AGENCY SALES AND
POSTING at WWW.FIDELITYASAP.COM or
714-730-2727 Dated: February 15, 2010 FIRST AMERICAN TITLE INSURANCE
COMPANY AS TRUSTEE C/O
CR TITLE SERVICES INC.
P.O. Box 16128 Tucson, AZ
85732-6128 PHONE NUMBER 866-702-9658 REINSTATEMENT LINE
866-272-4749 MARIA DELATORRE, ASST. SEC. ASAP#
3461984 03/09/2010,
03/16/2010, 03/23/2010,
03/30/2010
LEGAL NOTICE
TRUSTEE'S NOTICE OF SALE
Loan No: 0031390222 T.S.
No.: 10-07735-6. Reference
is made to that certain deed
made by, HANNAH K. NAGEL
as Grantor to WESTERN
TITLE AND ESCROW COMPANY, as trustee, in favor of
MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC
REGISTRATION SYSTEMS,
INC., as Beneficiary, recorded on October 6, 2006,
as Instrument No.
2006-67323 of Official
Records in the office of the
Recorder of Deschutes
County, OR to-wit: APN:
195895 PARCEL 3, PARTITION PLAT NO. 2000-33, BEING A REPLAT OF PARCEL 1,
PARTITION PLAT NO.
1998-02, CITY OF SISTERS,
DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON. Commonly known as:
576 S SPRUCE ST., SISTERS,
OR 97759 Both the beneficiary and the trustee have
elected to sell the said real
property to satisfy the obligations secured by said trust
deed and notice has been recorded pursuant to Section
86.735(3) of Oregon Revised
Statutes: the default for

which the foreclosure is
made is the grantor's: failed
to pay payments which became due; together with late
charges due; Monthly Payment $2,580.80 Monthly Late
Charge $102.56 By this reason of said default the beneficiary has declared all obligations secured by said deed
of trust immediately due and
payable, said sums being the
following, to-wit: The sum of
$732,046.60 together with
interest thereon at the rate
of 2.00000 % per annum
from June 1, 2009 until paid;
plus all accrued late charges
thereon; and all trustee's
fees, foreclosure costs and
any sums advanced by the
beneficiary pursuant to the
terms of said deed of trust.
Whereof, notice hereby is
given that FIDELITY NATIONAL TITLE INSURANCE
COMPANY, the undersigned
trustee will on June 7, 2010
at the hour of 11:00 AM,
Standard of Time, as established by section 187.110,
Oregon Revised Statues, at
the front entrance of the
Courthouse, 1164 N.W. Bond
Street, Bend, OR. County of
Deschutes , State of Oregon,
sell at public auction to the
highest bidder for cash the
interest in the said described
real property which the
grantor had or had power to
convey at the time of the execution by him of the said
trust deed, together with any
interest which the grantor or
his successors in interest acquired after the execution of
said trust deed, to satisfy the
foregoing obligations thereby
secured and the costs and
expenses of sale, including a
reasonable charge by the

trustee. Notice is further
given that any person named
in Section 86.753 of Oregon
Revised Statutes has the
right to have the foreclosure
proceeding dismissed and
the trust deed reinstated by
payment to the beneficiary of
the entire amount then due
(other than such portion of
said principal as would not
then be due had no default
occurred), together with the
costs, trustee's or attorney's
fees and curing any other
default complained of in the
Notice of Default by tendering the performance required under the obligation
or trust deed, at any time
prior to five days before the
date last set for sale. SALE
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In construing this notice, the
masculine gender includes
the feminine and the neuter,
the singular includes plural,
the word "grantor" includes
any successor in interest to
the grantor as well as any
other persons owing an obligation, the performance of
which is secured by said trust
deed, the words "trustee" and
"beneficiary" include their respective successors in interest, if any. Dated: March 2,
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3472356 03/09/2010,
03/16/2010, 03/23/2010,
03/30/2010
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LEGAL NOTICE
TRUSTEE'S NOTICE OF SALE
Loan No: 0471544049 T.S.
No.: OR-234676-C Reference
is made to that certain deed
made by, RONALD A. LEIS
AND SHAWN M. LEIS, AS
TENANTS BY THE ENTIRETY
as Grantor to FIRST AMERICAN TITLE, as trustee, in favor of MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION
SYSTEMS, INC., SOLELY AS
NOMINEE FOR HOMECOMINGS FINANCIAL, LLC
(F/K/A HOMECOMINGS FINANCIAL NETWORK, INC.) ,
as Beneficiary, dated
11/30/2006, recorded
12/6/2006, in official
records of Deschutes County,
Oregon in book/reel/volume
No. at page No. , fee/file/instrument/microfile/reception No. 2006-79949 (indicated which), covering the
following described real
property situated in said
County and State, to-wit:
APN: 134698 LOTS 11 AND
12 IN BLOCK 13 OF DAVIDSON ADDITION TO SISTERS,
DESCHUTES, COUNTY, OREGON. Commonly known as:
215 SOUTH SPRUCE STREET
SISTERS, Oregon 97759 Both
the beneficiary and the
trustee have elected to sell
the said real property to satisfy the obligations secured
by said trust deed and notice
has been recorded pursuant
to Section 86.735(3) of Oregon Revised Statutes: the
default for which the foreclosure is made is the grantor's:
Unpaid principal balance of
$392,752.70; plus accrued
interest plus impounds and /
or advances which became
due on 9/1/2009 plus late
charges, and all subsequent

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LEGAL NOTICE
TRUSTEE'S NOTICE OF SALE
Pursuant to O.R.S. 86.705 et seq. and O.R.S. 79.5010, et seq.
Trustee's Sale No. 09-FMB-91510
NOTICE TO BORROWER: YOU SHOULD BE AWARE THAT THE UNDERSIGNED IS ATTEMPTING TO
COLLECT A DEBT AND THAT ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE.
Reference is made to that certain Deed of Trust made by, LESLIE A. WALKER AND KENDRA M.
WALKER, AS TENANTS BY THE ENTIRETY, as grantor, to ORANGE COAST TITLE CO., as Trustee, in
favor of MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR QUICKEN
LOANS INC., as beneficiary, dated 3/15/2006, recorded 3/20/2006, under Instrument No.
2006-18735, records of DESCHUTES County, OREGON. The beneficial interest under said Trust
Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by ONEWEST BANK, FSB. Said Trust
Deed encumbers the following described real property situated in said county and state, to-wit:
LOT SEVENTEEN, STONEHEDGE ON THE RIM, PHASE III,
DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON.
The street address or other common designation, if any,
of the real property described above is purported to be:
1316 SOUTHWEST RIMROCK WAY REDMOND, OR 97756
The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the above street address
or other common designation. Both the beneficiary and the trustee have elected to sell the said
real property to satisfy the obligations secured by said trust deed and a notice of default has been
recorded pursuant to Oregon Revised Statutes 86.735(3); the default for which the foreclosure is
made is grantor's failure to pay when due, the following sums: Amount due as of February 24,
2010 Delinquent Payments from November 01, 2009 4 payments at. $ 1,929.13 each $ 7,716.52
(11-01-09 through 02-24-10) Late Charges: $ 351.12 Beneficiary Advances: $ 134.00 Suspense
Credit: $ 0.00 TOTAL: $ 8,201.64 ALSO, if you have failed to pay taxes on the property, provide
insurance on the property or pay other senior liens or encumbrances as required in the note and
deed of trust, the beneficiary may insist that you do so in order to reinstate your account in good
standing. The beneficiary may require as a condition to reinstatement that you provide reliable
written evidence that you have paid all senior liens or encumbrances, property taxes, and hazard
insurance premiums. These requirements for reinstatement should be confirmed by contacting
the undersigned Trustee. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on
the obligation secured by said trust deed immediately due and payable, said sums being the
following: UNPAID PRINCIPAL BALANCE OF $175,175.94, PLUS interest thereon at 6.625% per
annum from 10/1/2009, until paid, together with escrow advances, foreclosure costs, trustee
fees, attorney fees, sums required for the protection of the property and additional sums secured
by the Deed of Trust. WHEREFORE, notice hereby is given that the undersigned trustee, will on
June 28, 2010, at the hour of 11:00AM, in accord with the standard of time established by ORS
187.110, at FRONT ENTRANCE TO THE DESCHUTES COUNTY COURTHOUSE, 1164 NW BOND
STREET, BEND, County of DESCHUTES, State of OREGON, sell at public auction to the highest
bidder for cash, the interest in the said described property which the grantor had, or had the
power to convey, at the time of the execution by him of the said trust deed, together with any
interest which the grantor or his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said trust
deed, to satisfy the foregoing obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale,
including a reasonable charge by the trustee. Notice is further given that any person named in
ORS 86.753 has the right, at any time prior to five days before the date last set for the sale, to
have this foreclosure proceeding dismissed and the trust deed reinstated by payment to the beneficiary of the entire amount then due (other than such portion of the principal as would not then
be due had no default occurred) and by curing any other default complained of herein that is
capable of being cured by tendering the performance required under the obligation or trust deed,
and in addition to paying said sums or tendering the performance necessary to cure the default,
by paying all costs and expenses actually incurred in enforcing the obligation and trust deed,
together with trustee's and attorney's fees not exceeding the amounts provided by said ORS
86.753. In construing this notice, the masculine gender includes the feminine and the neuter, the
singular includes the plural, the word "grantor" includes any successor in interest to the grantor as
well as any other person owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said trust
deed, and the words "trustee" and "beneficiary" include their respective successors in interest, if
any. Anyone having any objection to the sale on any grounds whatsoever will be afforded an
opportunity to be heard as to those objections if they bring a lawsuit to restrain the same. DATED:
2/24/2010 REGIONAL TRUSTEE SERVICES CORPORATION Trustee By CHAD JOHNSON,
AUTHORIZED AGENT 616 1st Avenue, Suite 500, Seattle, WA 98104 Phone: (206) 340-2550 Sale
Information: http://www.rtrustee.com
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A voluntary (not mandatory)
pre-proposal conference to
discuss the context of this
RFP and answer proposer
questions will be held at 9:00
AM PST Wednesday March
17, 2010. The pre-bid meeting will be conducted electronically via web meeting.
All organizations receiving a
copy of the RFP will be notified of the specifics of the
web meeting.

NOTICE TO BORROWER: YOU SHOULD BE AWARE THAT THE UNDERSIGNED IS ATTEMPTING TO
COLLECT A DEBT AND THAT ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE.
Reference is made to that certain Deed of Trust made by, JOHN B. TAYLOR AND KAREN A. TAYLOR, AS TENANTS BY THE ENTIRETY, as grantor, to AMERITITLE, as Trustee, in favor of MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR MORTGAGEIT, INC., ITS
SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS, as beneficiary, dated 9/18/2006, recorded 9/29/2006, under Instrument No. 2006-66007, records of DESCHUTES County, OREGON. The beneficial interest under
said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by HSBC Bank USA, National Association AS TRUSTEE FOR LUMINENT 2007-1 Said Trust Deed encumbers the following
described real property situated in said county and state, to-wit:
LOT THREE (3), BLOCK THREE (3), RIMROCK WEST,
DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON.
The street address or other common designation, if any,
of the real property described above is purported to be:
611 NORTHWEST SILVER BUCKLE ROAD BEND, OR 97701
The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the above street address
or other common designation. Both the beneficiary and the trustee have elected to sell the said
real property to satisfy the obligations secured by said trust deed and a notice of default has been
recorded pursuant to Oregon Revised Statutes 86.735(3); the default for which the foreclosure is
made is grantor's failure to pay when due, the following sums: Amount due as of February 2, 2010
Delinquent Payments from October 01, 2009 1 payments at $ 2,072.96 each $ 2,072.96 2
payments at $ 2,191.15 each $ 4,382.30 2 payments at $ 2,202.92 each $ 4,405.84 (10-01-09
through 02-02-10) Late Charges: $ 332.93 Beneficiary Advances: $ 22.00 Suspense Credit: $ 0.00
TOTAL: $ 11,216.03 ALSO, if you have failed to pay taxes on the property, provide insurance on
the property or pay other senior liens or encumbrances as required in the note and deed of trust,
the beneficiary may insist that you do so in order to reinstate your account in good standing. The
beneficiary may require as a condition to reinstatement that you provide reliable written evidence
that you have paid all senior liens or encumbrances, property taxes, and hazard insurance
premiums. These requirements for reinstatement should be confirmed by contacting the
undersigned Trustee. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the
obligation secured by said trust deed immediately due and payable, said sums being the
following: UNPAID PRINCIPAL BALANCE OF $462,990.02, PLUS interest thereon at 4.375% per
annum from 09/01/09 to 11/1/2009, 4.375% per annum from 11/01/09 to 01/01/10, 4.375%
per annum from 1/1/2010, until paid, together with escrow advances, foreclosure costs, trustee
fees, attorney fees, sums required for the protection of the property and additional sums secured
by the Deed of Trust. WHEREFORE, notice hereby is given that the undersigned trustee, will on
June 7, 2010, at the hour of 11:00 AM, in accord with the standard of time established by ORS
187.110, at FRONT ENTRANCE TO THE DESCHUTES COUNTY COURTHOUSE, 1164 NW BOND
STREET, BEND, County of DESCHUTES, State of OREGON, sell at public auction to the highest
bidder for cash, the interest in the said described property which the grantor had, or had the
power to convey, at the time of the execution by him of the said trust deed, together with any
interest which the grantor or his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said trust
deed, to satisfy the foregoing obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale,
including a reasonable charge by the trustee. Notice is further given that any person named in
ORS 86.753 has the right, at any time prior to five days before the date last set for the sale, to
have this foreclosure proceeding dismissed and the trust deed reinstated by payment to the
beneficiary of the entire amount then due (other than such portion of the principal as would not
then be due had no default occurred) and by curing any other default complained of herein that is
capable of being cured by tendering the performance required under the obligation or trust deed,
and in addition to paying said sums or tendering the performance necessary to cure the default,
by paying all costs and expenses actually incurred in enforcing the obligation and trust deed, together with trustee's and attorney's fees not exceeding the amounts provided by said ORS 86.753.
In construing this notice, the masculine gender includes the feminine and the neuter, the singular
includes the plural, the word "grantor" includes any successor in interest to the grantor as well as
any other person owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said trust deed, and
the words "trustee" and "beneficiary" include their respective successors in interest, if any. Anyone
having any objection to the sale on any grounds whatsoever will be afforded an opportunity to be
heard as to those objections if they bring a lawsuit to restrain the same. DATED: 2/2/2010
REGIONAL TRUSTEE SERVICES CORPORATION By ANNA EGDORF, AUTHORIZED AGENT 616 1st
Avenue, Suite 500, Seattle WA 98104 Phone: (206) 340-2550 Sale information:
http://www.rtrustee.com

Reference is made to that certain deed made by James W. Horn, as Grantor to Amerititle, as
Trustee, in favor of National City Mortgage A Division of National City Bank, as Beneficiary, dated
June 06, 2007, recorded June 08, 2007, in official records of Deschutes, Oregon in
book/reel/volume No. xx at page No. xx, fee/file/Instrument/microfilm/reception No.
2007-32550 covering the following described real property situated in said County and State,
to-wit:
Lot 4 in block 5 of Second Addition to Chapparral Estates,
Deschutes County, Oregon.
Commonly known as:
5598 SW 58th Pl. Redmond OR 97756.
Both the beneficiary and the trustee have elected to sell the said real property to satisfy the obligations secured by said trust deed and notice has been recorded pursuant to Section 86.735(3) of
Oregon Revised Statutes: the default for which the foreclosure is made is the grantor's: Failure to
pay the monthly payment due June 1, 2009 of principal, interest and impounds and subsequent
installments due thereafter; plus late charges; together with all subsequent sums advanced by
beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said deed of trust. Monthly payment
$1,671.68 Monthly Late Charge $73.67. By this reason of said default the beneficiary has declared
all obligations secured by said Deed of Trust immediately due and payable, said sums being the
following, to-wit; The sum of $544,000.00 together with interest thereon at 3.250% per annum
from May 01, 2009 until paid; plus all accrued late charges thereon; and all trustee's fees, foreclosure costs and any sums advance by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of the
said deed of trust. Whereof, notice hereby is given that, Cal-Western Reconveyance Corporation
the undersigned trustee will on June 09, 2010 at the hour of 1:00pm, Standard of Time, as established by Section 187.110, Oregon Revised Statutes, At the Bond Street entrance to Deschutes
County Courthouse 1164 NW Bond, City of Bend, County of Deschutes, State of Oregon, sell at
public auction to the highest bidder for cash the interest in the said described real property which
the grantor had or had power to convey at the time of the execution by him of the said trust deed,
together with any interest which the grantor or his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said trust deed, to satisfy the foregoing obligations thereby secured and the costs and
expense of sale, including a reasonable charge by the trustee. Notice is further given that any
person named in Section 86.753 of Oregon Revised Statutes has the right to have the foreclosure
proceeding dismissed and the trust deed reinstated by payment to the beneficiary of the entire
amount then due (other than such portion of said principal as would not then be due had no default occurred), together with the costs, trustee's and attorney's fees and curing any other default
complained of in the Notice of Default by tendering the performance required under the obligation or trust deed, at any time prior to five days before the date last set for sale. In construing
this notice, the masculine gender includes the feminine and the neuter, the singular includes plural, the word "grantor" includes any successor in interest to the grantor as well as any other persons owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said trust deed, the words
"trustee" and "beneficiary" includes their respective successors in interest, if any. Dated: January
29, 2010. NOTICE TO TENANTS: If you are a tenant of this property, foreclosure could affect your
rental agreement. A purchaser who buys this property at a foreclosure sale has the right to require you to move out after giving you notice of the requirement. If you do not have a fixed-term
lease, the purchaser may require you to move out after giving you a 30- day notice on or after the
date of the sale. If you have a fixed-term lease, you may be entitled to receive after the date of
the sale a 60-day notice of the purchaser's requirement that you move out To be entitled to either a 30-day or 60-day notice, you must give the trustee of the property written evidence of your
rental agreement at least 30 days before the date first set for the sale. If you have a fixed-term
lease and cannot provide a copy of the rental agreement, you may give the trustee other written
evidence of the existence of the rental agreement. The date that is 30 days before the date of the
sale is May 10, 2010, the name of the trustee and the trustee's mailing address are listed on this
notice. Federal law may grant you additional rights, including a right to a longer notice period.
Consult a lawyer for more information about you rights under federal law. You have the right to
apply your security deposit and any rent you prepaid toward your current obligation under your
rental agreement. If you want to do so, you must notify' your landlord in writing and in advance
that you intend to do so. If you believe you need legal assistance with this matter, you may contact the Oregon State Bar and ask for the lawyer referral service. Contact information for the Oregon State Bar is included with this notice: If you have a low income and meet federal poverty
guide-lines, you may be eligible for free legal assistance. Contact information for where you can
obtain free legal assistance is included with this notice. OREGON STATE BAR 16037 SW Upper
Boones Ferry Road Tigard, Oregon 97224 (503) 620-0222 (800) 452-8260 http://www.osbar.org
Directory of Legal Aid Programs:http://www.oregonlawhelp.org Cal-Western Reconveyance Corporation 525 East Main Street P.O. Box 22004 El Cajon CA 92022-9004 Cal-Western Reconveyance Corporation Signature/By: Tammy Laird

Note: Questions concerning

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Any protest must be in writing and must include: a detailed statement of the legal
and factual grounds for the
protest; a description of the
resulting harm to the Affected Person; and the relief
requested.
If no timely protest is filed,
this Notice of Intent to
Award Contract becomes an
Award of Contract without
further action by the Board.
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and Field
Based Reporting System
REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS
NOTICE TO PROPOSERS
Specifications and Proposals
for providing the subject
items or services are available electronically by contacting Mr. Leo Birbilas, Sr.
Consultant, RCC Consultants,
Lbirbilas@RCC.com and will
be received until 5:00 PM, local time, Friday, April 9,
2010, at 63333 Highway 20,
Bend, OR 97701. Proposals
received after the above-referenced time set for opening
will be rejected and returned
unopened.

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installments of principal, interest, balloon payments,
plus impounds and/or advances and late charges that
become payable. Monthly
Payment $2,995.31 Monthly
Late Charge $128.37 By this
reason of said default the
beneficiary has declared all
obligations secured by said
deed of trust immediately
due and payable, said sums
being the following, to-wit:
The sum of $392,752.70 together with interest thereon
at the rate of 6.25% per annum from 8/1/2009 until
paid; plus all accrued late
charges thereon; and all
trustee's fees, foreclosure
costs and any sums advanced by the beneficiary
pursuant to the terms of said
deed of trust. Whereof, notice hereby is given that LSI
TITLE COMPANY OF OREGON, LLC, the undersigned
trustee will on 5/4/2010 at
the hour of 11:00 AM, Standard of Time, as established
by section 187.110, Oregon
Revised Statues, at Front
entrance of the Courthouse,
1164 N.W. Bond Street,
Bend, Oregon County of Deschutes, State of Oregon, sell
at public auction to the highest bidder for cash the interest in the said described real
property which the grantor
had or had power to convey
at the time of the execution
by him of the said trust deed,
together with any interest
which the grantor or his successors in interest acquired
after the execution of said
trust deed, to satisfy the
foregoing obligations thereby
secured and the costs and
expenses of sale, including a
reasonable charge by the
trustee. Notice is further
given that any person named
in Section 86.753 of Oregon
Revised Statutes has the
right to have the foreclosure
proceeding dismissed and
the trust deed reinstated by
payment to the beneficiary of
the entire amount then due
(other than such portion of
said principal as would not
then be due had no default
occurred), together with the
costs, trustee's and attorney's
fees and curing any other
default complained of in the
Notice of Default by tendering the performance required under the obligation
or trust deed, at any time
prior to five days before the
date last set for sale. In construing this notice, the masculine gender includes the
feminine and the neuter, the
singular includes plural, the
word "grantor" includes any
successor in interest to the
grantor as well as any other
persons owing an obligation,
the performance of which is
secured by said trust deed,
the words "trustee" and
â€˜beneficiary" include their
respective successors in interest, if any. Dated:
12/14/2009 LSI TITLE
COMPANY OF OREGON, LLC
C/O Executive Trustee Services, LLC at 2255 North
Ontario Street, Suite 400
Burbank, California
91504-3120 Sale Line:
714-730-2727 Signature By:
Marvell L. Carmouche Authorized Signatory ASAP#
3378200 02/16/2010,
02/23/2010, 03/02/2010,
03/09/2010

prior to five days before the
date last set for sale. In construing this notice, the masculine gender includes the
feminine and the neuter, the
singular includes plural, the
word "grantor" includes any
successor in interest to the
grantor as well as any other
persons owing an obligation,
the performance of which is
secured by said trust deed,
the words "trustee" and
â€˜beneficiary" include their
respective successors in interest, if any. Dated:
12/14/2009 LSI TITLE
COMPANY OF OREGON, LLC
C/O Executive Trustee Services, LLC at 2255 North
Ontario Street, Suite 400
Burbank, California
91504-3120 Sale Line:
714-730-2727 Signature By:
Marvell L. Carmouche Authorized Signatory ASAP#
3378173 02/16/2010,
02/23/2010, 03/02/2010,
03/09/2010

together with any interest
which the grantor or his successors in interest acquired
after the execution of said
trust deed, to satisfy the
foregoing obligations thereby
secured and the costs and
expenses of sale, including a
reasonable charge by the
trustee. Notice is further
given that any person named
in Section 86.753 of Oregon
Revised Statutes has the
right to have the foreclosure
proceeding dismissed and
the trust deed reinstated by
payment to the beneficiary of
the entire amount then due
(other than such portion of
said principal as would not
then be due had no default
occurred), together with the
costs, trustee's and attorney's
fees and curing any other
default complained of in the
Notice of Default by tendering the performance required under the obligation
or trust deed, at any time
prior to five days before the
date last set for sale. In construing this notice, the masculine gender includes the
feminine and the neuter, the
singular includes plural, the
word "grantor" includes any
successor in interest to the
grantor as well as any other
persons owing an obligation,
the performance of which is
secured by said trust deed,
the words "trustee" and
â€˜beneficiary" include their
respective successors in interest, if any. Dated:
12/30/2009 LSI TITLE
COMPANY OF OREGON, LLC
C/O Executive Trustee Services, LLC at 2255 North
Ontario Street, Suite 400
Burbank, California
91504-3120 Sale Line:
714-730-2727 Signature By
Gina Avila Authorized Signatory ASAP# 3395460
02/16/2010, 02/23/2010,
03/02/2010, 03/09/2010

at the rate of 8.125% per annum from 7/1/2009 until
paid; plus all accrued late
charges thereon; and all
trustee's fees, foreclosure
costs and any sums advanced by the beneficiary
pursuant to the terms of said
deed of trust. Whereof, notice hereby is given that LSI
TITLE COMPANY OF OREGON, LLC, the undersigned
trustee will on 5/12/2010 at
the hour of 11:00 AM, Standard of Time, as established
by section 187.110, Oregon
Revised Statues, at Front
entrance of the Courthouse,
1164 N.W. Bond Street,
Bend, Oregon County of Deschutes, State of Oregon, sell
at public auction to the highest bidder for cash the interest in the said described real
property which the grantor
had or had power to convey
at the time of the execution
by him of the said trust deed,
together with any interest
which the grantor or his successors in interest acquired
after the execution of said
trust deed, to satisfy the
foregoing obligations thereby
secured and the costs and
expenses of sale, including a
reasonable charge by the
trustee. Notice is further
given that any person named
in Section 86.753 of Oregon
Revised Statutes has the
right to have the foreclosure
proceeding dismissed and
the trust deed reinstated by
payment to the beneficiary of
the entire amount then due
(other than such portion of
said principal as would not
then be due had no default
occurred), together with the
costs, trustee's and attorney's
fees and curing any other
default complained of in the
Notice of Default by tendering the performance required under the obligation
or trust deed, at any time
prior to five days before the
date last set for sale. In construing this notice, the masculine gender includes the
feminine and the neuter, the
singular includes plural, the
word "grantor" includes any
successor in interest to the
grantor as well as any other
persons owing an obligation,
the performance of which is
secured by said trust deed,
the words "trustee" and
â€˜beneficiary" include their
respective successors in interest, if any. Dated:
12/22/2009 LSI TITLE
COMPANY OF OREGON, LLC
C/O Executive Trustee Services, LLC at 2255 North
Ontario Street, Suite 400
Burbank, California
91504-3120 Sale Line:
714-730-2727 Signature By
Cindy Sandoval Authorized
Signatory WE ARE ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT,
AND ANY INFORMATION WE
OBTAIN WILL BE USED FOR
THAT PURPOSE. ASAP#
3387776 02/23/2010,
03/02/2010, 03/09/2010,
03/16/2010

LEGAL NOTICE
TRUSTEE'S NOTICE OF SALE
Loan No: 0601719465 T.S.
No.: OR-234628-C Reference
is made to that certain deed
made by, CRAIG J. HUBBARD AND JENNIFER C.
HUBBARD, HUSBAND AND
WIFE as Grantor to WESTERN TITLE & ESCROW CO, as
trustee, in favor of MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC.,
SOLELY AS NOMINEE FOR
HOMECOMINGS FINANCIAL
NETWORK, INC. , as Beneficiary, dated 9/12/2006, recorded 9/15/2006, in official records of Deschutes
County, Oregon in
book/reel/volume No. at
page No. , fee/file/instrument/microfile/reception
No. 2006-62892 (indicated
which), covering the following described real property
situated in said County and
State, to-wit: APN: 122212
LOT 3, BLOCK 3, PLAT OF
NORTH RIM, DESCHUTES
COUNTY, OREGON. Commonly known as: 2309
NORTHWEST 12TH STREET
REDMOND, Oregon 97756
Both the beneficiary and the
trustee have elected to sell
the said real property to satisfy the obligations secured
by said trust deed and notice
has been recorded pursuant
to Section 86.735(3) of Oregon Revised Statutes: the
default for which the foreclosure is made is the grantor's:
Unpaid principal balance of
$212,000.00; plus accrued
interest plus impounds and /
or advances which became
due on 9/1/2009 plus late
charges, and all subsequent
installments of principal, interest, balloon payments,
plus impounds and/or advances and late charges that
become payable. Monthly
Payment $1,705.72 Monthly
Late Charge $0.00 By this
reason of said default the
beneficiary has declared all
obligations secured by said
deed of trust immediately
due and payable, said sums
being the following, to-wit:
The sum of $212,000.00 together with interest thereon
at the rate of 6.75% per annum from 8/1/2009 until
paid; plus all accrued late
charges thereon; and all
trustee's fees, foreclosure
costs and any sums advanced by the beneficiary
pursuant to the terms of said
deed of trust. Whereof, notice hereby is given that LSI
TITLE COMPANY OF OREGON, LLC, the undersigned
trustee will on 5/4/2010 at
the hour of 11:00 AM, Standard of Time, as established
by section 187.110, Oregon
Revised Statues, at Front
entrance of the Courthouse,
1164 N.W. Bond Street,
Bend, Oregon County of Deschutes, State of Oregon, sell
at public auction to the highest bidder for cash the interest in the said described real
property which the grantor
had or had power to convey
at the time of the execution
by him of the said trust deed,
together with any interest
which the grantor or his successors in interest acquired
after the execution of said
trust deed, to satisfy the
foregoing obligations thereby
secured and the costs and
expenses of sale, including a
reasonable charge by the
trustee. Notice is further
given that any person named
in Section 86.753 of Oregon
Revised Statutes has the
right to have the foreclosure
proceeding dismissed and
the trust deed reinstated by
payment to the beneficiary of
the entire amount then due
(other than such portion of
said principal as would not
then be due had no default
occurred), together with the
costs, trustee's and attorney's
fees and curing any other
default complained of in the
Notice of Default by tendering the performance required under the obligation
or trust deed, at any time

LEGAL NOTICE
TRUSTEE'S NOTICE OF SALE
Loan No: 7429505803 T.S.
No.: OR-235454-C Reference
is made to that certain deed
made by, BRENT HARRISON
as Grantor to FIRST AMERICAN TITLE, as trustee, in favor of "MERS" MORTGAGE
ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC.,
SOLELY AS NOMINEE FOR
LENDER HOMECOMINGS FINANCIAL NETWORK, INC., as
Beneficiary, dated
7/22/2006, recorded
7/28/2006, in official
records of Deschutes County,
Oregon in book/reel/volume
No. at page No. , fee/file/instrument/microfile/reception No. 2006-51949 (indicated which), covering the
following described real
property situated in said
County and State, to-wit:
APN: 186976 LOT 44 IN
BLOCK 4 OF PROVIDENCE
PHASE 8, DESCHUTES
COUNTY, OREGON. Commonly known as: 939
NORTHEAST LOCKSLEY
DRIVE BEND, Oregon 97701
Both the beneficiary and the
trustee have elected to sell
the said real property to satisfy the obligations secured
by said trust deed and notice
has been recorded pursuant
to Section 86.735(3) of Oregon Revised Statutes: the
default for which the foreclosure is made is the grantor's:
Unpaid principal balance of
$251,991.01; plus accrued
interest plus impounds and /
or advances which became
due on 6/1/2009 plus late
charges, and all subsequent
installments of principal, interest, balloon payments,
plus impounds and/or advances and late charges that
become payable. Monthly
Payment $1,841.62 Monthly
Late Charge $78.74 By this
reason of said default the
beneficiary has declared all
obligations secured by said
deed of trust immediately
due and payable, said sums
being the following, to-wit:
The sum of $251,991.01 together with interest thereon
at the rate of 7.5% per annum from 5/1/2009 until
paid; plus all accrued late
charges thereon; and all
trustee's fees, foreclosure
costs and any sums advanced by the beneficiary
pursuant to the terms of said
deed of trust. Whereof, notice hereby is given that LSI
TITLE COMPANY OF OREGON, LLC, the undersigned
trustee will on 5/21/2010 at
the hour of 11:00 AM, Standard of Time, as established
by section 187.110, Oregon
Revised Statues, at Front
entrance of the Courthouse,
1164 N.W. Bond Street,
Bend, Oregon County of Deschutes, State of Oregon, sell
at public auction to the highest bidder for cash the interest in the said described real
property which the grantor
had or had power to convey
at the time of the execution
by him of the said trust deed,

LEGAL NOTICE
TRUSTEE'S NOTICE OF SALE
Loan No: 0597017904 T.S.
No.: OR-211765-C Reference
is made to that certain deed
made by, CRAIG J. BAKER as
Grantor to FIRST AMERICAN
TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY OF OREGON, as
trustee, in favor of "MERS"
MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC
REGISTRATION SYSTEMS,
INC., SOLELY AS NOMINEE
FOR LENDER GMAC MORTGAGE CORPORATION, as
Beneficiary, dated
9/22/2006, recorded
9/26/2006, in official
records of Deschutes County,
Oregon in book/reel/volume
No. at page No. , fee/file/instrument/microfile/reception No. 2006-65131 (indicated which), covering the
following described real
property situated in said
County and State, to-wit:
APN: 245893 LOT FOUR OF
CANAL ROW, CITY OF BEND,
DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON. Commonly known as:
20867 DANIEL DUKE WAY
BEND, OREGON 97701 Both
the beneficiary and the
trustee have elected to sell
the said real property to satisfy the obligations secured
by said trust deed and notice
has been recorded pursuant
to Section 86.735(3) of Oregon Revised Statutes: the
default for which the foreclosure is made is the grantor's:
Unpaid principal balance of
$212,000.00; plus accrued
interest plus impounds and /
or advances which became
due on 8/1/2009 plus late
charges, and all subsequent
installments of principal, interest, balloon payments,
plus impounds and/or advances and late charges that
become payable. Monthly
Payment $1,435.42 Monthly
Late Charge $71.77 By this
reason of said default the
beneficiary has declared all
obligations secured by said
deed of trust immediately
due and payable, said sums
being the following, to-wit:
The sum of $212,000.00 together with interest thereon

LEGAL NOTICE
TRUSTEE'S NOTICE OF SALE
Loan No: 7470830662 T.S.
No.: OR-235036-C Reference
is made to that certain deed
made by, DEREK B. HAMBLIN as Grantor to FIRST
AMERICAN TITLE, as trustee,
in favor of "MERS" MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC.,
SOLELY AS NOMINEE FOR
LENDER HOMECOMINGS FINANCIAL, LLC (F/K/A
HOMECOMINGS FINANCIAL
NETWORK, INC.), as Beneficiary, dated 11/3/2006, recorded 11/13/2006, in official records of Deschutes
County, Oregon in
book/reel/volume No. at
page No. , fee/file/instrument/microfile/reception
No. 2006-74839 (indicated
which), covering the following described real property
situated in said County and
State, to-wit: APN: 205875
LOT 60 OF SUNSET VIEW
ESTATES, PHASE III-B, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON.
Commonly known as: 20318
RAINBOW LAKE TRAIL BEND,
OREGON 97702 Both the
beneficiary and the trustee
have elected to sell the said
real property to satisfy the
obligations secured by said
trust deed and notice has
been recorded pursuant to
Section 86.735(3) of Oregon
Revised Statutes: the default
for which the foreclosure is
made is the grantor's: Unpaid principal balance of
$835,000.00; plus accrued
interest plus impounds and /
or advances which became
due on 9/1/2009 plus late
charges, and all subsequent
installments of principal, interest, balloon payments,
plus impounds and/or advances and late charges that
become payable. Monthly
Payment $5,651.21 Monthly
Late Charge $221.79 By this
reason of said default the
beneficiary has declared all
obligations secured by said
deed of trust immediately
due and payable, said sums
being the following, to-wit:
The sum of $835,000.00 together with interest thereon
at the rate of 6.375% per annum from 8/1/2009 until
paid; plus all accrued late
charges thereon; and all
trustee's fees, foreclosure
costs and any sums advanced by the beneficiary
pursuant to the terms of said
deed of trust. Whereof, notice hereby is given that LSI
TITLE COMPANY OF OREGON, LLC, the undersigned
trustee will on 5/11/2010 at
the hour of 11:00 AM, Standard of Time, as established
by section 187.110, Oregon
Revised Statues, at Front
entrance of the Courthouse,
1164 N.W. Bond Street,
Bend, Oregon County of Deschutes, State of Oregon, sell
at public auction to the highest bidder for cash the interest in the said described real
property which the grantor
had or had power to convey
at the time of the execution
by him of the said trust deed,
together with any interest
which the grantor or his successors in interest acquired
after the execution of said
trust deed, to satisfy the
foregoing obligations thereby
secured and the costs and
expenses of sale, including a
reasonable charge by the
trustee. Notice is further
given that any person named
in Section 86.753 of Oregon
Revised Statutes has the
right to have the foreclosure
proceeding dismissed and
the trust deed reinstated by
payment to the beneficiary of
the entire amount then due
(other than such portion of
said principal as would not
then be due had no default
occurred), together with the
costs, trustee's and attorney's
fees and curing any other
default complained of in the
Notice of Default by tendering the performance required under the obligation
or trust deed, at any time

Reference is made to that certain deed made by Mario Riquelme, as Grantor to Deschutes County
Title Company, as Trustee, in favor of National City Mortgage A Division of National City Bank, as
Beneficiary, dated October 05, 2006, recorded October 16, 2006, in official records of Deschutes,
Oregon in book/reel/volume No. xx at page No. xx, fee/file/Instrument/microfilm/reception No.
2006-68922 covering the following described real property situated in said County and State,
to-wit:
Lot 7 of River Park Estates, City of Bend,
Deschutes County, Oregon.
Commonly known as:
3530 NW Mesa Verde Ct. Bend OR 97701.
Both the beneficiary and the trustee have elected to sell the said real property to satisfy the obligations secured by said trust deed and notice has been recorded pursuant to Section 86.735(3) of
Oregon Revised Statutes: the default for which the foreclosure is made is the grantor's: Failure to
pay the monthly payment due May 1, 2009 of principal, interest and impounds and subsequent installments due thereafter; plus late charges; together with all subsequent sums advanced by beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said deed of trust. Monthly payment $4,940.74
Monthly Late Charge $175.49. By this reason of said default the beneficiary has declared all obligations secured by said Deed of Trust immediately due and payable, said sums being the following, to-wit; The sum of $990,986.36 together with interest thereon at 4.250% per annum from
April 01, 2009 until paid; plus all accrued late charges thereon; and all trustee's fees, foreclosure
costs and any sums advance by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of the said
deed of trust. Whereof, notice hereby is given that, Cal-Western Reconveyance Corporation the
undersigned trustee will on June 22, 2010 at the hour of 1:00pm, Standard of Time, as established by Section 187.110, Oregon Revised Statutes, At the Bond Street entrance to Deschutes
County Courthouse 1164 NW Bond, City of Bend, County of Deschutes, State of Oregon, sell at
public auction to the highest bidder for cash the interest in the said described real property which
the grantor had or had power to convey at the time of the execution by him of the said trust deed,
together with any interest which the grantor or his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said trust deed, to satisfy the foregoing obligations thereby secured and the costs and
expense of sale, including a reasonable charge by the trustee. Notice is further given that any
person named in Section 86.753 of Oregon Revised Statutes has the right to have the foreclosure
proceeding dismissed and the trust deed reinstated by payment to the beneficiary of the entire
amount then due (other than such portion of said principal as would not then be due had no default occurred), together with the costs, trustee's and attorney's fees and curing any other default
complained of in the Notice of Default by tendering the performance required under the obligation or trust deed, at any time prior to five days before the date last set for sale. In construing
this notice, the masculine gender includes the feminine and the neuter, the singular includes plural, the word "grantor" includes any successor in interest to the grantor as well as any other persons owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said trust deed, the words
"trustee" and "beneficiary" includes their respective successors in interest, if any. Dated: February
09, 2010. NOTICE TO TENANTS: If you are a tenant of this property, foreclosure could affect your
rental agreement. A purchaser who buys this property at a foreclosure sale has the right to require you to move out after giving you notice of the requirement. If you do not have a fixed-term
lease, the purchaser may require you to move out after giving you a 30- day notice on or after the
date of the sale. If you have a fixed-term lease, you may be entitled to receive after the date of
the sale a 60-day notice of the purchaser's requirement that you move out To be entitled to either a 30-day or 60-day notice, you must give the trustee of the property written evidence of your
rental agreement at least 30 days before the date first set for the sale. If you have a fixed-term
lease and cannot provide a copy of the rental agreement, you may give the trustee other written
evidence of the existence of the rental agreement. The date that is 30 days before the date of the
sale is May 23, 2010, the name of the trustee and the trustee's mailing address are listed on this
notice. Federal law may grant you additional rights, including a right to a longer notice period.
Consult a lawyer for more information about you rights under federal law. You have the right to
apply your security deposit and any rent you prepaid toward your current obligation under your
rental agreement. If you want to do so, you must notify' your landlord in writing and in advance
that you intend to do so. If you believe you need legal assistance with this matter, you may contact the Oregon State Bar and ask for the lawyer referral service. Contact information for the Oregon State Bar is included with this notice: If you have a low income and meet federal poverty
guide-lines, you may be eligible for free legal assistance. Contact information for where you can
obtain free legal assistance is included with this notice. OREGON STATE BAR 16037 SW Upper
Boones Ferry Road Tigard, Oregon 97224 (503) 620-0222 (800) 452-8260 http://www.osbar.org
Directory of Legal Aid Programs:http://www.oregonlawhelp.org Cal-Western Reconveyance Corporation 525 East Main Street P.O. Box 22004 El Cajon CA 92022-9004 Cal-Western Reconveyance Corporation Signature/By: Tammy Laird

Reference is made to that certain deed made by Rick C. Upham, as Grantor to Western Title & Escrow, as Trustee, in favor of Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., ("mers") As Nominee
For Aspen Mortgage Group, as Beneficiary, dated January 27, 2005, recorded February 02, 2005,
in official records of Deschutes, Oregon in book/reel/volume No. xx at page No. xx, fee/file/Instrument/microfilm/reception No. 2005-06596 covering the following described real property
situated in said County and State, to-wit:
Lot 39, block 30, Deschutes River Recreation Homesites, Inc., Unit 5,
Deschutes County Oregon.
Commonly known as:
56430 Celestial Drive Bend OR 97707.
Both the beneficiary and the trustee have elected to sell the said real property to satisfy the obligations secured by said trust deed and notice has been recorded pursuant to Section 86.735(3) of
Oregon Revised Statutes: the default for which the foreclosure is made is the grantor's: Failure to
pay the monthly payment due July 1, 2009 of principal and interest and subsequent installments
due thereafter; plus late charges; together with all subsequent sums advanced by beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said deed of trust. Monthly payment $922.09 Monthly Late
Charge $46.10. By this reason of said default the beneficiary has declared all obligations secured
by said Deed of Trust immediately due and payable, said sums being the following, to-wit; The
sum of $151,988.95 together with interest thereon at 5.500% per annum from June 01, 2009 until paid; plus all accrued late charges thereon; and all trustee's fees, foreclosure costs and any
sums advance by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of the said deed of trust.
Whereof, notice hereby is given that, Cal-Western Reconveyance Corporation the undersigned
trustee will on June 04, 2010 at the hour of 1:00pm, Standard of Time, as established by Section
187.110, Oregon Revised Statutes, At the Bond Street entrance to Deschutes County Courthouse
1164 NW Bond, City of Bend, County of Deschutes, State of Oregon, sell at public auction to the
highest bidder for cash the interest in the said described real property which the grantor had or
had power to convey at the time of the execution by him of the said trust deed, together with any
interest which the grantor or his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said trust
deed, to satisfy the foregoing obligations thereby secured and the costs and expense of sale, including a reasonable charge by the trustee. Notice is further given that any person named in Section 86.753 of Oregon Revised Statutes has the right to have the foreclosure proceeding dismissed and the trust deed reinstated by payment to the beneficiary of the entire amount then due
(other than such portion of said principal as would not then be due had no default occurred), together with the costs, trustee's and attorney's fees and curing any other default complained of in
the Notice of Default by tendering the performance required under the obligation or trust deed, at
any time prior to five days before the date last set for sale. In construing this notice, the masculine gender includes the feminine and the neuter, the singular includes plural, the word "grantor"
includes any successor in interest to the grantor as well as any other persons owing an obligation,
the performance of which is secured by said trust deed, the words "trustee" and "beneficiary" includes their respective successors in interest, if any. Dated: January 25, 2010. NOTICE TO TENANTS: If you are a tenant of this property, foreclosure could affect your rental agreement. A purchaser who buys this property at a foreclosure sale has the right to require you to move out after
giving you notice of the requirement. If you do not have a fixed-term lease, the purchaser may
require you to move out after giving you a 30- day notice on or after the date of the sale. If you
have a fixed-term lease, you may be entitled to receive after the date of the sale a 60-day notice
of the purchaser's requirement that you move out To be entitled to either a 30-day or 60-day notice, you must give the trustee of the property written evidence of your rental agreement at least
30 days before the date first set for the sale. If you have a fixed-term lease and cannot provide a
copy of the rental agreement, you may give the trustee other written evidence of the existence of
the rental agreement. The date that is 30 days before the date of the sale is May 5, 2010, the
name of the trustee and the trustee's mailing address are listed on this notice. Federal law may
grant you additional rights, including a right to a longer notice period. Consult a lawyer for more
information about you rights under federal law. You have the right to apply your security deposit
and any rent you prepaid toward your current obligation under your rental agreement. If you want
to do so, you must notify' your landlord in writing and in advance that you intend to do so. If you
believe you need legal assistance with this matter, you may contact the Oregon State Bar and ask
for the lawyer referral service. Contact information for the Oregon State Bar is included with this
notice: If you have a low income and meet federal poverty guide-lines, you may be eligible for
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prior to five days before the
date last set for sale. In construing this notice, the masculine gender includes the
feminine and the neuter, the
singular includes plural, the
word "grantor" includes any
successor in interest to the
grantor as well as any other
persons owing an obligation,
the performance of which is
secured by said trust deed,
the words "trustee" and
â€˜beneficiary" include their
respective successors in interest, if any. Dated:
12/21/2009 LSI TITLE
COMPANY OF OREGON, LLC
C/O Executive Trustee Services, LLC at 2255 North
Ontario Street, Suite 400
Burbank, California
91504-3120 Sale Line:
714-730-2727 Signature By
Cindy Sandoval Authorized
Signatory WE ARE ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT,
AND ANY INFORMATION WE
OBTAIN WILL BE USED FOR
THAT PURPOSE. ASAP#
3385570 02/23/2010,
03/02/2010, 03/09/2010,
03/16/2010
LEGAL NOTICE
TRUSTEE'S NOTICE OF SALE
Loan No: 0713908212 T.S.
No.: OR-235369-C Reference
is made to that certain deed
made by, MITZI M.
KAWAKAMI as Grantor to
WESTERN TITLE, as trustee,
in favor of MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION
SYSTEMS, INC., AS NOMINEE FOR MIT LENDING, A
CORPORATION, as Beneficiary, dated 6/6/2005, recorded 6/17/2005, in official records of Deschutes
County, Oregon in
book/reel/volume No. at
page No. , fee/file/instrument/microfile/reception
No. 2005-38090 (indicated
which), covering the following described real property
situated in said County and
State, to-wit: APN: 206097
LOT 48, MAJESTIC RIDGE,
PHASES 1 AND 2, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON.
Commonly known as: 4022
SW MAJESTIC AVENUE
REDMOND, Oregon 97756
Both the beneficiary and the
trustee have elected to sell
the said real property to satisfy the obligations secured
by said trust deed and notice
has been recorded pursuant
to Section 86.735(3) of Oregon Revised Statutes: the
default for which the foreclosure is made is the grantor's:
Unpaid principal balance of
$226,201.01; plus accrued
interest plus impounds and /
or advances which became
due on 10/1/2009 plus late
charges, and all subsequent
installments of principal, interest, balloon payments,
plus impounds and/or advances and late charges that
become payable. Monthly
Payment $1,465.31 Monthly
Late Charge $49.48 By this
reason of said default the
beneficiary has declared all
obligations secured by said
deed of trust immediately

due and payable, said sums
being the following, to-wit:
The sum of $226,201.01 together with interest thereon
at the rate of 5.25% per annum from 9/1/2009 until
paid; plus all accrued late
charges thereon; and all
trustee's fees, foreclosure
costs and any sums advanced by the beneficiary
pursuant to the terms of said
deed of trust. Whereof, notice hereby is given that LSI
TITLE COMPANY OF OREGON, LLC, the undersigned
trustee will on 5/20/2010 at
the hour of 11:00 AM, Standard of Time, as established
by section 187.110, Oregon
Revised Statues, at Front
entrance of the Courthouse,
1164 N.W. Bond Street,
Bend, Oregon County of Deschutes, State of Oregon, sell
at public auction to the highest bidder for cash the interest in the said described real
property which the grantor
had or had power to convey
at the time of the execution
by him of the said trust deed,
together with any interest
which the grantor or his successors in interest acquired
after the execution of said
trust deed, to satisfy the
foregoing obligations thereby
secured and the costs and
expenses of sale, including a
reasonable charge by the
trustee. Notice is further
given that any person named
in Section 86.753 of Oregon
Revised Statutes has the
right to have the foreclosure
proceeding dismissed and
the trust deed reinstated by
payment to the beneficiary of
the entire amount then due
(other than such portion of
said principal as would not
then be due had no default
occurred), together with the
costs, trustee's and attorney's
fees and curing any other
default complained of in the
Notice of Default by tendering the performance required under the obligation
or trust deed, at any time
prior to five days before the
date last set for sale. In construing this notice, the masculine gender includes the
feminine and the neuter, the
singular includes plural, the
word "grantor" includes any
successor in interest to the
grantor as well as any other
persons owing an obligation,
the performance of which is
secured by said trust deed,
the words "trustee" and
â€˜beneficiary" include their
respective successors in interest, if any. Dated:
12/29/2009 LSI TITLE
COMPANY OF OREGON, LLC
C/O Executive Trustee Services, LLC at 2255 North
Ontario Street, Suite 400
Burbank, California
91504-3120 Sale Line:
714-730-2727 Signature By
Gina Avila Authorized Signatory ASAP# 3393672
02/16/2010, 02/23/2010,
03/02/2010, 03/09/2010

LEGAL NOTICE
TRUSTEE'S NOTICE OF SALE
Loan No: 7441388873 T.S.
No.: OR-234953-C Reference
is made to that certain deed
made by, CHARLES W. REPONEN and KELLY L. REPONEN, HUSBAND AND WIFE
as Grantor to DESCHUTES
COUNTY TITLE COMPANY, as
trustee, in favor of "MERS"
MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC
REGISTRATION SYSTEMS,
INC., SOLELY AS NOMINEE
FOR LENDER MERITAGE
MORTGAGE, as Beneficiary,
dated 4/5/2006, recorded
4/7/2006, in official records
of Deschutes County, Oregon in book/reel/volume
No. at page No. , fee/file/instrument/microfile/reception No. 2006-23880 (indicated which), covering the
following described real
property situated in said
County and State, to-wit:
APN: 244278 LOT
SEVENTY-SIX OF HAYDEN
RANCH ESTATES, PHASES 2
AND 3, CITY OF REDMOND,
DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON. Commonly known as:
1261 NORTHEAST 5TH
STREET REDMOND, OREGON
97756 Both the beneficiary
and the trustee have elected
to sell the said real property
to satisfy the obligations secured by said trust deed and
notice has been recorded
pursuant to Section
86.735(3) of Oregon Revised
Statutes: the default for
which the foreclosure is
made is the grantor's: Unpaid principal balance of
$236,011.09; plus accrued
interest plus impounds and /
or advances which became
due on 1/1/2009 plus late
charges, and all subsequent
installments of principal, interest, balloon payments,
plus impounds and/or advances and late charges that
become payable. Monthly
Payment $1,791.93 Monthly
Late Charge $77.46 By this
reason of said default the
beneficiary has declared all
obligations secured by said
deed of trust immediately
due and payable, said sums
being the following, to-wit:
The sum of $236,011.09 together with interest thereon
at the rate of 7.374% per annum from 12/1/2008 until
paid; plus all accrued late
charges thereon; and all
trustee's fees, foreclosure
costs and any sums advanced by the beneficiary
pursuant to the terms of said
deed of trust. Whereof, notice hereby is given that LSI
TITLE COMPANY OF OREGON, LLC, the undersigned
trustee will on 5/7/2010 at
the hour of 11:00 AM, Standard of Time, as established
by section 187.110, Oregon
Revised Statues, at Front
entrance of the Courthouse,
1164 N.W. Bond Street,
Bend, Oregon County of Deschutes, State of Oregon, sell
at public auction to the highest bidder for cash the interest in the said described real
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LEGAL NOTICE
Request for Proposal
for
Contracted Baker County Marketing Director
Background
Baker County and the incorporated cities in Baker County have entered into intergovernmental
agreements for the collection of Transient Lodging Taxes (TLT) from overnight visitors to our
County. These TLT fees are then utilized for the operation of a visitor center, tourism marketing
and economic development. The tourism marketing function is overseen by a 5 member committee appointed by the Baker County Board of Commissioners (Commission). This committee
recommends marketing policy, implementation and development of the Baker County Marketing
Plan and budgetary considerations to the Commission. Baker County is requesting proposals for
the position of contracted Marketing Director. All individuals or vendors who have experience and
expertise in tourism marketing and the ability to provide dynamic leadership toward the marketing of Baker County tourism are encouraged to apply.
Position Description
Baker County intends to enter into a long term relationship with a contractor to enhance the Baker
County Marketing Plan. It is the desire of the County to have continuity in County marketing and
to utilize limited resources with maximum efficiency. The need for a marketing professional to
guide our marketing strategy is imperative.
This position will be the catalyst for a broad community discussion surrounding visitor services,
marketing strategy and long term tourism focus.
Presently, Baker County has a marketing budget of nearly $350,000. Of that budget, $120,000 are
allocated to the operation of the Baker County Visitor Center and a grant program for events. The
remaining $230,000 has been earmarked for tourism marketing, a marketing director and opportunistic marketing. The opportunistic marketing line is a type of contingency fund for unforeseen
opportunities which could be expended if needed. Presently we pay $60,000/year for an independent contractor to fulfill the marketing director position. Baker County has a marketing strategy and is looking for creative proposals which utilize the above resources and maximize return
on our marketing dollars. Baker County looks to the Marketing Director position to analyze the
marketing plan, provide insight and specific strategies to maximize returns. After buy-in from
stakeholders and the Commission, the marketing director will be responsible for implementation
of the adopted plan.
All creative and dynamic proposals will be considered. We are interested in the applicants
viewpoint on our present marketing plans and strategies and how they can be sustained or
improved in the future.
Scope of Work
a. Serve as an independent contractor.
b. Monitor and implement budget as approved by the Baker County Board of Commissioners.
c. Work with Transient Lodging Tax Committee and other partners to develop current marketing
plan and then implement the plan.
d. Help develop measurement standards for monitoring the effectiveness of tourism marketing in
Baker County.
e. Act as the public spokesperson for tourism and marketing in Baker County.
f. Advocate positively for Baker County as a destination for tourists, businesses and relocation.
Proposals should Include:
1. Familiarity with Baker County tourism industry and general attractions.
2. Analysis of Baker County marketing plans
3. Analysis of Base Camp Baker brand
4. Ability to create, install and implement fulfillment pieces, web site content and print/media
ads.
5. Plans and abilities to engage community partners (lodging establishments, government
entities, chambers of commerce, event managers, tourism destination entities, regional tourism
organizations, key local attractions and businesses, etc.)
6. Ability to communicate and partner with a wide variety of diverse interests.
7. Ability to monitor spending based on adopted budget.
8. Ability to articulate marketing activities to the TLT Committee and other stakeholders.
Additional Information:
1. Detailed cost proposal for Marketing Director position.
2. References
3. Examples of previous work product.
Scoring and Ranking of Applicants
Baker County will score potential applicants on the following criteria:
• Marketing Experience20 points
• Communication Skills20 points
• Demonstrated ability to interact with diverse groups effectively20 points
• Analysis of strengths and weaknesses of current Baker County Marketing Plan30 points
• Fiscal Management10 points
The applicants with the highest scores will be required to attend a personal interview. An
interview panel will recommend the hiring of a contract Marketing Director to the Baker County
Board of Commissioners.
Copies of the 2009-10 Baker County Marketing Plan and 2009-10 Marketing Budget are available
at the Baker County Commissioner's office located at 1995 Third St., Baker City, OR 9781
Baker County Board of Commissioners
1995 Third Street, Suite 101
Baker City, OR 97814
For further information, please contact Heidi Martin, Executive Assistant at 541-523-8200
Responses must be received in the Commissioner's office no later than 5:00 p.m. on March 26,
2010.
The position will be filled by July 1, 2010

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had or had power to convey
at the time of the execution
by him of the said trust deed,
together with any interest
which the grantor or his successors in interest acquired
after the execution of said
trust deed, to satisfy the
foregoing obligations thereby
secured and the costs and
expenses of sale, including a
reasonable charge by the
trustee. Notice is further
given that any person named
in Section 86.753 of Oregon
Revised Statutes has the
right to have the foreclosure
proceeding dismissed and
the trust deed reinstated by
payment to the beneficiary of
the entire amount then due
(other than such portion of
said principal as would not
then be due had no default
occurred), together with the
costs, trustee's and attorney's
fees and curing any other
default complained of in the
Notice of Default by tendering the performance required under the obligation
or trust deed, at any time
prior to five days before the
date last set for sale. In construing this notice, the masculine gender includes the
feminine and the neuter, the
singular includes plural, the
word "grantor" includes any
successor in interest to the
grantor as well as any other
persons owing an obligation,
the performance of which is
secured by said trust deed,
the words "trustee" and
â€˜beneficiary" include their
respective successors in interest, if any. Dated:
12/18/2009 LSI TITLE
COMPANY OF OREGON, LLC
C/O Executive Trustee Services, LLC at 2255 North
Ontario Street, Suite 400
Burbank, California
91504-3120 Sale Line:
714-730-2727 Signature By
Cindy Sandoval Authorized
Signatory ASAP# 3383915
02/16/2010, 02/23/2010,
03/02/2010, 03/09/2010

being the following, to-wit:
The sum of $212,000.00 together with interest thereon
at the rate of 8.125% per annum from 7/1/2009 until
paid; plus all accrued late
charges thereon; and all
trustee's fees, foreclosure
costs and any sums advanced by the beneficiary
pursuant to the terms of said
deed of trust. Whereof, notice hereby is given that LSI
TITLE COMPANY OF OREGON, LLC, the undersigned
trustee will on 5/12/2010 at
the hour of 11:00 AM, Standard of Time, as established
by section 187.110, Oregon
Revised Statues, at Front
entrance of the Courthouse,
1164 N.W. Bond Street,
Bend, Oregon County of Deschutes, State of Oregon, sell
at public auction to the highest bidder for cash the interest in the said described real
property which the grantor
had or had power to convey
at the time of the execution
by him of the said trust deed,
together with any interest
which the grantor or his successors in interest acquired
after the execution of said
trust deed, to satisfy the
foregoing obligations thereby
secured and the costs and
expenses of sale, including a
reasonable charge by the
trustee. Notice is further
given that any person named
in Section 86.753 of Oregon
Revised Statutes has the
right to have the foreclosure
proceeding dismissed and
the trust deed reinstated by
payment to the beneficiary of
the entire amount then due
(other than such portion of
said principal as would not
then be due had no default
occurred), together with the
costs, trustee's and attorney's
fees and curing any other
default complained of in the
Notice of Default by tendering the performance required under the obligation
or trust deed, at any time
prior to five days before the
date last set for sale. In construing this notice, the masculine gender includes the
feminine and the neuter, the
singular includes plural, the
word "grantor" includes any
successor in interest to the
grantor as well as any other
persons owing an obligation,
the performance of which is
secured by said trust deed,
the words "trustee" and
â€˜beneficiary" include their
respective successors in interest, if any. Dated:
12/22/2009 LSI TITLE
COMPANY OF OREGON, LLC
C/O Executive Trustee Services, LLC at 2255 North
Ontario Street, Suite 400
Burbank, California
91504-3120 Sale Line:
714-730-2727 Signature By
Cindy Sandoval Authorized
Signatory WE ARE ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT,
AND ANY INFORMATION WE
OBTAIN WILL BE USED FOR
THAT PURPOSE. ASAP#
3387776 02/23/2010,
03/02/2010, 03/09/2010,
03/16/2010

eficial interest under said
Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are
presently held by Deutsche
Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee under Pooling and Servicing Agreement
dated as of January 1, 2006
Morgan Stanley Home Equity Loan Trust 2006-1 Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2006-1. Said
Trust Deed encumbers the
following described real
property situated in said
county and state, to-wit: LOT
7, BLOCK 17, DAVISON ADDITION TO SISTERS, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON.
The street address or other
common designation, if any,
of the real property described above is purported to
be: LOT 7 DAVISON ADDITION NOW KNOWN AS 358
SOUTH CEDAR STREET SISTERS, OR 97759 The undersigned Trustee disclaims any
liability for any incorrectness
of the above street address
or other common designation. Both the beneficiary and
the trustee have elected to
sell the said real property to
satisfy the obligations secured by said trust deed and
a notice of default has been
recorded pursuant to Oregon
Revised Statutes 86.735(3);
the default for which the
foreclosure is made is
grantor's failure to pay when
due, the following sums: TOTAL AMOUNT DUE AS OF
2/2/2010 $ 157,966.46 By
reason of said default, the
beneficiary has declared all
sums owing on the obligation secured by said trust
deed immediately due and
payable, said sums being the
following: ALL DUE AND
PAYABLE BALANCE OF
157,966.46 AS OF
02/02/2010 PLUS interest
thereon at 10.375% per annum, until paid, together
with escrow advances, foreclosure costs, trustee fees,
attorney fees, sums required
for the protection of the
property and additional sums
secured by the Deed of Trust.
WHEREFORE, notice hereby
is given that the undersigned trustee, will on June
17, 2010, at the hour of
11:00 AM, in accord with the
standard of time established
by ORS 187.110, at FRONT
ENTRANCE TO THE DESCHUTES COUNTY COURTHOUSE, 1164 NW BOND
STREET, BEND, County of
DESCHUTES, State of OREGON, sell at public auction
to the highest bidder for
cash, the interest in the said
described property which the
grantor had, or had the
power to convey, at the time
of the execution by him of
the said trust deed, together
with any interest which the
grantor or his successors in
interest acquired after the
execution of said trust deed,
to satisfy the foregoing obligations thereby secured and
the costs and expenses of
sale, including a reasonable
charge by the trustee. Notice
is further given that any person named in ORS 86.753
has the right, at any time
prior to five days before the
date last set for the sale, to
have this foreclosure proceeding dismissed and the
trust deed reinstated by
payment to the beneficiary of
the entire amount then due
(other than such portion of
the principal as would not
then be due had no default
occurred) and by curing any
other default complained of
herein that is capable of being cured by tendering the
performance required under
the obligation or trust deed,
and in addition to paying said
sums or tendering the performance necessary to cure
the default, by paying all
costs and expenses actually
incurred in enforcing the obligation and trust deed, together with trustee's and
attorney's fees not exceeding the amounts provided by
said ORS 86.753. Notwith-

LEGAL NOTICE
TRUSTEE'S NOTICE OF SALE
Loan No: 0597017904 T.S.
No.: OR-211765-C Reference
is made to that certain deed
made by, CRAIG J. BAKER as
Grantor to FIRST AMERICAN
TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY OF OREGON, as
trustee, in favor of "MERS"
MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC
REGISTRATION SYSTEMS,
INC., SOLELY AS NOMINEE
FOR LENDER GMAC MORTGAGE CORPORATION, as
Beneficiary, dated
9/22/2006, recorded
9/26/2006, in official
records of Deschutes County,
Oregon in book/reel/volume
No. at page No. , fee/file/instrument/microfile/reception No. 2006-65131 (indicated which), covering the
following described real
property situated in said
County and State, to-wit:
APN: 245893 LOT FOUR OF
CANAL ROW, CITY OF BEND,
DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON. Commonly known as:
20867 DANIEL DUKE WAY
BEND, OREGON 97701 Both
the beneficiary and the
trustee have elected to sell
the said real property to satisfy the obligations secured
by said trust deed and notice
has been recorded pursuant
to Section 86.735(3) of Oregon Revised Statutes: the
default for which the foreclosure is made is the grantor's:
Unpaid principal balance of
$212,000.00; plus accrued
interest plus impounds and /
or advances which became
due on 8/1/2009 plus late
charges, and all subsequent
installments of principal, interest, balloon payments,
plus impounds and/or advances and late charges that
become payable. Monthly
Payment $1,435.42 Monthly
Late Charge $71.77 By this
reason of said default the
beneficiary has declared all
obligations secured by said
deed of trust immediately
due and payable, said sums

LEGAL NOTICE
TRUSTEE'S NOTICE OF SALE
Pursuant to O.R.S. 86.705 et
seq. and O.R.S. 79.5010, et
seq. Trustee's Sale No.
09-FMB-90743 NOTICE TO
BORROWER: YOU SHOULD
BE AWARE THAT THE UNDERSIGNED IS ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT
AND THAT ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE
USED FOR THAT PURPOSE.
Reference is made to that
certain Deed of Trust made
by, ROSEMARIE BERGER AN
UNMARRIED WOMAN, as
grantor, to TRANSNATION
TITLE INSURANCE CO, as
Trustee, in favor of INDYMAC BANK, F.S.B., A FEDERALLY CHARTERED SAVINGS
BANK, as beneficiary, dated
10/5/2006, recorded
10/11/2006, under instrument No. 2006-68091,
records of DESCHUTES
County, OREGON. The ben-

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standing the use of the term
"reinstatement" or "reinstated", this obligation is fully
mature and the entire principal balance is due and payable, together with interest,
costs, fees and advances as
set forth above. In construing this notice, the masculine gender includes the
feminine and the neuter, the
singular includes the plural,
the word "grantor" includes
any successor in interest to
the grantor as well as any
other person owing an obligation, the performance of
which is secured by said trust
deed, and the words "trustee"
and "beneficiary" include
their respective successors in
interest, if any. Anyone having any objection to the sale
on any grounds whatsoever
will be afforded an opportunity to be heard as to those
objections if they bring a
lawsuit to restrain the same.
DATED: 2/12/2010 REGIONAL TRUSTEE SERVICES
CORPORATION Trustee By
MELISSA HJORTEN, ASST.
VICE PRESIDENT 616 1st
Avenue, Suite 500, Seattle,
WA 98104 Phone: (206)
340-2550 Sale Information:
http://www.rtrustee.com
ASAP# 3450803
02/23/2010, 03/02/2010,
03/09/2010, 03/16/2010
LEGAL NOTICE
TRUSTEE'S NOTICE OF SALE
Loan No: 502167856 Title
Order No: 4365859 T.S. No.:
OR05000010-10-1. Reference is made to that certain
deed made by, ROBERT LINK
AND CARI LINK, AS TENANTS BY THE ENTIRETY as
Grantor to LANDAMERICA
LAWYERS TITLE COMPANY,
as trustee, in favor of FLAGSTAR BANK, FSB as Lender
and MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION
SYSTEMS, INC. as Beneficiary, recorded on July 10,
2008, as Instrument No.
2008-29317 of Official
Records in the office of the
Recorder of Deschutes
County, OR to-wit: APN:
209060 LOT 21, RIVER CANYON ESTATES, CITY OF
BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY,
OREGON. Commonly known
as: 19612 SW HOLLYGRAPE
ST., BEND, OR 97702-2688
Both the beneficiary and the
trustee have elected to sell
the said real property to satisfy the obligations secured
by said trust deed and notice
has been recorded pursuant
to Section 86.735(3) of Oregon Revised Statutes: the
default for which the foreclosure is made is the grantor's:
failed to pay payments which
became due; Monthly Payment $2,370.26 Monthly Late
Charge $118.52 By this reason of said default the beneficiary has declared all obligations secured by said deed
of trust immediately due and
payable, said sums being the
following, to-wit: The sum of
$372,588.01 together with
interest thereon at the rate
of 6.50000 % per annum
from March 1, 2009 until
paid; plus all accrued late
charges thereon; and all
trustee's fees, foreclosure
costs and any sums advanced by the beneficiary
pursuant to the terms of said
deed of trust. Whereof, notice hereby is given that, the
undersigned trustee will on
June 24, 2010 at the hour of
11:00 AM, Standard of Time,
as established by section
187.110, Oregon Revised
Statues, at the front entrance of the Courthouse,
1164 N.W. Bond Street,
Bend, OR. County of Deschutes , State of Oregon, sell
at public auction to the highest bidder for cash the interest in the said described real
property which the grantor
had or had power to convey
at the time of the execution
by him of the said trust deed,
together with any interest
which the grantor or his suc-

cessors in interest acquired
after the execution of said
trust deed, to satisfy the
foregoing obligations thereby
secured and the costs and
expenses of sale, including a
reasonable charge by the
trustee. Notice is further
given that any person named
in Section 86.753 of Oregon
Revised Statutes has the
right to have the foreclosure
proceeding dismissed and
the trust deed reinstated by
payment to the beneficiary of
the entire amount then due
(other than such portion of
said principal as would not
then be due had no default
occurred), together with the
costs, trustee's or attorney's
fees and curing any other
default complained of in the
Notice of Default by tendering the performance required under the obligation
or trust deed, at any time
prior to five days before the
date last set for sale. In construing this notice, the masculine gender includes the
feminine and the neuter, the
singular includes plural, the
word "grantor" includes any
successor in interest to the
grantor as well as any other
persons owing an obligation,
the performance of which is
secured by said trust deed,
the words "trustee" and "beneficiary" include their respective successors in interest, if any. Dated: February
10, 2010 FIRST AMERICAN
TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY MARIA DELATORRE,
ASST. SEC. C/O TRUSTEE
CORPS 2112 BUSINESS CENTER DRIVE, 2ND FLOOR, IRVINE, CA 92612 For Sale information contact: (714)
573-1965, (714) 573 7777,
(949) 252 8300 THIS COMMUNICATION IS FROM A
DEBT COLLECTOR AND IS AN
ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A
DEBT, ANY INFORMATION
OBTAINED WILL BE USED
FOR THAT PURPOSE. ASAP#
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03/02/2010, 03/09/2010,
03/16/2010
LEGAL NOTICE
TRUSTEE'S NOTICE OF SALE
Loan No: 7441121357 T.S.
No.: OR-177972-C Reference
is made to that certain deed
made by, MARIA EMMA TECK
as Grantor to WESTERN
TITLE & ESCROW CO., as
trustee, in favor of MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC.,
SOLELY AS NOMINEE FOR
MORTGAGEIT, INC., as Beneficiary, dated 2/10/2006,
recorded 2/16/2006, in official records of Deschutes
County, Oregon in
book/reel/volume No. at
page No., fee/file/instrument/microfile/reception
No. 2006-11083 (indicated
which), covering the following described real property
situated in said County and
State, to-wit: APN: 240338
LOT ONE HUNDRED TWENTY
(120), OBSIDIAN ESTATES
NO. 3 RECORDED JULY 7,
2003 IN CABINET F, PAGE
577, DESCHUTES COUNTY,
OREGON. Commonly known
as: 2935 SW PERIDOT AVENUE REDMOND, OR 97756
Both the beneficiary and the
trustee have elected to sell
the said real property to satisfy the obligations secured
by said trust deed and notice
has been recorded pursuant
to Section 86.735(3) of Oregon Revised Statutes: the
default for which the foreclosure is made is the grantor's:
Unpaid principal balance of
$172,857.17; plus accrued
interest plus impounds and /
or advances which became
due on 4/1/2009 plus late
charges, and all subsequent
installments of principal, interest, balloon payments,
plus impounds and/or advances and late charges that
become payable. Monthly
Payment $1,133.49 Monthly
Late Charge $47.71 By this
reason of said default the

beneficiary has declared all
obligations secured by said
deed of trust immediately
due and payable, said sums
being the following, to-wit:
The sum of $172,857.17 together with interest thereon
at the rate of 6.625% per annum from 3/1/2009 until
paid; plus all accrued late
charges thereon; and all
trustee's fees, foreclosure
costs and any sums advanced by the beneficiary
pursuant to the terms of said
deed of trust. Whereof, notice hereby is given that LSI
TITLE COMPANY OF OREGON, LLC, the undersigned
trustee will on 4/30/2010 at
the hour of 11:00 AM, Standard of Time, as established
by section 187.110, Oregon
Revised Statues, at Front
entrance of the Courthouse,
1164 N.W. Bond Street,
Bend, Oregon County of Deschutes, State of Oregon, sell
at public auction to the highest bidder for cash the interest in the said described real
property which the grantor
had or had power to convey
at the time of the execution
by him of the said trust deed,
together with any interest
which the grantor or his successors in interest acquired
after the execution of said
trust deed, to satisfy the
foregoing obligations thereby
secured and the costs and
expenses of sale, including a
reasonable charge by the
trustee. Notice is further
given that any person named
in Section 86.753 of Oregon
Revised Statutes has the
right to have the foreclosure
proceeding dismissed and
the trust deed reinstated by
payment to the beneficiary of
the entire amount then due
(other than such portion of
said principal as would not
then be due had no default
occurred), together with the
costs, trustee's and attorney's
fees and curing any other
default complained of in the
Notice of Default by tendering the performance required under the obligation
or trust deed, at any time
prior to five days before the
date last set for sale. In construing this notice, the masculine gender includes the
feminine and the neuter, the
singular includes plural, the
word "grantor" includes any
successor in interest to the
grantor as well as any other
persons owing an obligation,
the performance of which is
secured by said trust deed,
the words "trustee" and
â€˜beneficiary" include their
respective successors in interest, if any. Dated:
12/18/2009 LSI TITLE
COMPANY OF OREGON, LLC
C/O Executive Trustee Services, LLC at 2255 North
Ontario Street, Suite 400
Burbank, California
91504-3120 Sale Line:
714-730-2727 Signature By
Marvell L. Carmouche Authorized Signatory WE ARE ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A
DEBT, AND ANY INFORMATION WE OBTAIN WILL BE
USED FOR THAT PURPOSE.
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TRUSTEE'S NOTICE OF SALE
Loan No: 8254747838 T.S. No.: OR-202490-C
Reference is made to that certain deed made by, BRAD D. SHAVER AND MARILYN F. KOSEL as
Grantor to HOME CONNECTS, as trustee, in favor of MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION
SYSTEMS, INC., AS NOMINEE FOR GMAC MORTGAGE, LLC, A DELAWARE LIMITED LIABILITY
COMPANY F/K/A GMAC MORTGAGE CORPORATION, as Beneficiary, dated 2/7/2007, recorded
3/12/2007, in official records of Deschutes County, Oregon in book/reel/volume No. at page No.
, fee/file/instrument/microfile/reception No. 2007-14540 (indicated which), covering the following described real property situated in said County and State, to-wit:
APN: 165042
PARCEL 1: In Township Fourteen (14) South, Range Ten (10), East of the Willamette Meridian,
Deschutes County, Oregon. Section Twenty-five (25): Commencing at the Southwest corner
of said Section 25; thence North 89º56'06" East, 1340.66 feet; thence North 00º09'46" West,
1320.32 feet to the point of beginning; thence continuing North 00º09'46" West, 435.66 feet;
thence North 89º59'06" East, 400 feet; thence South 00º09'46" East, 435.66 feet;
thence South 89º56'06" West, 400 feet to she point of beginning. PARCEL 2: The Northeast
Quarter of the Southwest Quarter (NE1/4 SW1/4) of Section Twenty-five (25),
Township Fourteen (14) South, Range Ten (10). East of the Willamette Meridian,
Deschutes County, Oregon. EXCEPTING THEREFROM In Township Fourteen (14) South,
Range Ten (10), East of the Willamette Meridian, Deschutes County, Oregon.
Section Twenty-five (25): Commencing at the Southwest corner of said Section 25;
thence North 89º56'06" East, 1340.66 feet; thence North 00Â°09'46" West, 1,320.32 feet
to the point of beginning; thence continuing North 00Â°09'46" West, 435.66 feet;
thence North 89º59'06'' East, 400 feet; thence South 00º09'46" East, 435.66 feet;
thence South 89º56'06" West, 400 feet to the point of beginning.
Commonly known as:
69700 PINE RIDGE DRIVE SISTERS, Oregon 97759
Both the beneficiary and the trustee have elected to sell the said real property to satisfy the
obligations secured by said trust deed and notice has been recorded pursuant to Section
86.735(3) of Oregon Revised Statutes: the default for which the foreclosure is made is the
grantor's: Unpaid principal balance of $200,000.00; plus accrued interest plus impounds and / or
advances which became due on 2/20/2009 plus late charges, and all subsequent installments of
principal, interest, balloon payments, plus impounds and/or advances and late charges that
become payable. Monthly Payment $739.73 Monthly Late Charge $20.00 By this reason of said
default the beneficiary has declared all obligations secured by said deed of trust immediately due
and payable, said sums being the following, to-wit: The sum of $200,000.00 together with interest
thereon at the rate of 4.5% per annum from 1/20/2009 until paid; plus all accrued late charges
thereon; and all trustee's fees, foreclosure costs and any sums advanced by the beneficiary
pursuant to the terms of said deed of trust. Whereof, notice hereby is given that LSI TITLE
COMPANY OF OREGON, LLC, the undersigned trustee will on 5/17/2010 at the hour of 11:00 AM,
Standard of Time, as established by section 187.110, Oregon Revised Statues, at Front entrance of
the Courthouse, 1164 N.W. Bond Street, Bend, Oregon County of Deschutes, State of Oregon, sell
at public auction to the highest bidder for cash the interest in the said described real property
which the grantor had or had power to convey at the time of the execution by him of the said
trust deed, together with any interest which the grantor or his successors in interest acquired
after the execution of said trust deed, to satisfy the foregoing obligations thereby secured and the
costs and expenses of sale, including a reasonable charge by the trustee. Notice is further given
that any person named in Section 86.753 of Oregon Revised Statutes has the right to have the
foreclosure proceeding dismissed and the trust deed reinstated by payment to the beneficiary of
the entire amount then due (other than such portion of said principal as would not then be due
had no default occurred), together with the costs, trustee's and attorney's fees and curing any
other default complained of in the Notice of Default by tendering the performance required under
the obligation or trust deed, at any time prior to five days before the date last set for sale. In
construing this notice, the masculine gender includes the feminine and the neuter, the singular
includes plural, the word "grantor" includes any successor in interest to the grantor as well as any
other persons owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said trust deed, the
words "trustee" and â€˜beneficiary" include their respective successors in interest, if any. Dated:
1/4/2010 LSI TITLE COMPANY OF OREGON, LLC C/O Executive Trustee Services, LLC at 2255
North Ontario Street, Suite 400 Burbank, California 91504-3120 Sale Line: 714-730-2727 Signature By: Marvell L. Carmouche Authorized Signatory
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T.S. No.: OR-09-330426-SH

Reference is made to that certain deed made by Larry G. Walker and Marian L. Walker, Husband
And Wife, as Grantor to Amerititle, as Trustee, in favor of First Franklin A Division of Nat. City
Bank Of In, as Beneficiary, dated June 23, 2005, recorded June 30, 2005, in official records of Deschutes, Oregon in book/reel/volume No. xx at page No. xx, fee/file/Instrument/microfilm/reception No. 2005-41368 covering the following described real property situated in said County
and State, to-wit:
Lot twenty (20), Stonehenge on the Rim, Phase II,
Deschutes County, Oregon.
Commonly known as:
2152 SW Newberry Court Redmond OR 97756.
Both the beneficiary and the trustee have elected to sell the said real property to satisfy the obligations secured by said trust deed and notice has been recorded pursuant to Section 86.735(3) of
Oregon Revised Statutes: the default for which the foreclosure is made is the grantor's: Failure to
pay the monthly payment due September 1, 2008 of principal and interest and subsequent installments due thereafter; plus late charges; together with all subsequent sums advanced by beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said deed of trust. Monthly payment $1,448.05
Monthly Late Charge $57.73. By this reason of said default the beneficiary has declared all obligations secured by said Deed of Trust immediately due and payable, said sums being the following,
to-wit; The sum of $175,950.12 together with interest thereon at 7.875% per annum from August
01, 2008 until paid; plus all accrued late charges thereon; and all trustee's fees, foreclosure costs
and any sums advance by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of the said deed of
trust. Whereof, notice hereby is given that, Cal-Western Reconveyance Corporation the undersigned trustee will on June 09, 2010 at the hour of 1:00pm, Standard of Time, as established by
Section 187.110, Oregon Revised Statutes, At the Bond Street entrance to Deschutes County
Courthouse 1164 NW Bond, City of Bend, County of Deschutes, State of Oregon, sell at public
auction to the highest bidder for cash the interest in the said described real property which the
grantor had or had power to convey at the time of the execution by him of the said trust deed, together with any interest which the grantor or his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said trust deed, to satisfy the foregoing obligations thereby secured and the costs and expense of sale, including a reasonable charge by the trustee. Notice is further given that any
person named in Section 86.753 of Oregon Revised Statutes has the right to have the foreclosure
proceeding dismissed and the trust deed reinstated by payment to the beneficiary of the entire
amount then due (other than such portion of said principal as would not then be due had no default occurred), together with the costs, trustee's and attorney's fees and curing any other default
complained of in the Notice of Default by tendering the performance required under the obligation or trust deed, at any time prior to five days before the date last set for sale. In construing
this notice, the masculine gender includes the feminine and the neuter, the singular includes plural, the word "grantor" includes any successor in interest to the grantor as well as any other persons owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said trust deed, the words
"trustee" and "beneficiary" includes their respective successors in interest, if any. Dated: January
25, 2010. NOTICE TO TENANTS: If you are a tenant of this property, foreclosure could affect your
rental agreement. A purchaser who buys this property at a foreclosure sale has the right to require you to move out after giving you notice of the requirement. If you do not have a fixed-term
lease, the purchaser may require you to move out after giving you a 30- day notice on or after the
date of the sale. If you have a fixed-term lease, you may be entitled to receive after the date of
the sale a 60-day notice of the purchaser's requirement that you move out To be entitled to either a 30-day or 60-day notice, you must give the trustee of the property written evidence of your
rental agreement at least 30 days before the date first set for the sale. If you have a fixed-term
lease and cannot provide a copy of the rental agreement, you may give the trustee other written
evidence of the existence of the rental agreement. The date that is 30 days before the date of the
sale is May 10, 2010, the name of the trustee and the trustee's mailing address are listed on this
notice. Federal law may grant you additional rights, including a right to a longer notice period.
Consult a lawyer for more information about you rights under federal law. You have the right to
apply your security deposit and any rent you prepaid toward your current obligation under your
rental agreement. If you want to do so, you must notify' your landlord in writing and in advance
that you intend to do so. If you believe you need legal assistance with this matter, you may contact the Oregon State Bar and ask for the lawyer referral service. Contact information for the Oregon State Bar is included with this notice: If you have a low income and meet federal poverty
guide-lines, you may be eligible for free legal assistance. Contact information for where you can
obtain free legal assistance is included with this notice. OREGON STATE BAR 16037 SW Upper
Boones Ferry Road Tigard, Oregon 97224 (503) 620-0222 (800) 452-8260 http://www.osbar.org
Directory of Legal Aid Programs:http://www.oregonlawhelp.org Cal-Western Reconveyance Corporation 525 East Main Street P.O. Box 22004 El Cajon CA 92022-9004 Cal-Western Reconveyance Corporation Signature/By: Tammy Laird

Reference is made to that certain deed made by John M. Simpson and Jolene M. Simpson, As
Tenants By The Entirety, as Grantor to First American Title Insurance Company Of Oregon, as
Trustee, in favor of Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc, as Beneficiary, dated November 07, 2005, recorded November 14, 2005, in official records of Deschutes, Oregon in
book/reel/volume No. xx at page No. xx, fee/file/Instrument/microfilm/reception No.
2005-77859 covering the following described real property situated in said County and State,
to-wit:
Lot twenty-seven (27), block HH, Deschutes River Woods,
recorded march 22, 1962, in plat book 6,
Deschutes County, Oregon.
Commonly known as:
19483 Baker Road Bend OR 97702.
Both the beneficiary and the trustee have elected to sell the said real property to satisfy the obligations secured by said trust deed and notice has been recorded pursuant to Section 86.735(3) of
Oregon Revised Statutes: the default for which the foreclosure is made is the grantor's: Failure to
pay the monthly payment due February 1, 2009 of principal and interest and subsequent installments due thereafter; plus late charges; together with all subsequent sums advanced by beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said deed of trust. Monthly payment $1,735.62
Monthly Late Charge $68.83. By this reason of said default the beneficiary has declared all obligations secured by said Deed of Trust immediately due and payable, said sums being the following,
to-wit; The sum of $202,974.80 together with interest thereon at 6.625% per annum from January 01, 2009 until paid; plus all accrued late charges thereon; and all trustee's fees, foreclosure
costs and any sums advance by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of the said
deed of trust. Whereof, notice hereby is given that, Cal-Western Reconveyance Corporation the
undersigned trustee will on June 22, 2010 at the hour of 1:00pm, Standard of Time, as established by Section 187.110, Oregon Revised Statutes, At the Bond Street entrance to Deschutes
County Courthouse 1164 NW Bond, City of Bend, County of Deschutes, State of Oregon, sell at
public auction to the highest bidder for cash the interest in the said described real property which
the grantor had or had power to convey at the time of the execution by him of the said trust deed,
together with any interest which the grantor or his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said trust deed, to satisfy the foregoing obligations thereby secured and the costs and
expense of sale, including a reasonable charge by the trustee. Notice is further given that any
person named in Section 86.753 of Oregon Revised Statutes has the right to have the foreclosure
proceeding dismissed and the trust deed reinstated by payment to the beneficiary of the entire
amount then due (other than such portion of said principal as would not then be due had no default occurred), together with the costs, trustee's and attorney's fees and curing any other default
complained of in the Notice of Default by tendering the performance required under the obligation or trust deed, at any time prior to five days before the date last set for sale. In construing
this notice, the masculine gender includes the feminine and the neuter, the singular includes plural, the word "grantor" includes any successor in interest to the grantor as well as any other persons owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said trust deed, the words
"trustee" and "beneficiary" includes their respective successors in interest, if any. Dated: February
09, 2010. NOTICE TO TENANTS: If you are a tenant of this property, foreclosure could affect your
rental agreement. A purchaser who buys this property at a foreclosure sale has the right to require you to move out after giving you notice of the requirement. If you do not have a fixed-term
lease, the purchaser may require you to move out after giving you a 30- day notice on or after the
date of the sale. If you have a fixed-term lease, you may be entitled to receive after the date of
the sale a 60-day notice of the purchaser's requirement that you move out To be entitled to either a 30-day or 60-day notice, you must give the trustee of the property written evidence of your
rental agreement at least 30 days before the date first set for the sale. If you have a fixed-term
lease and cannot provide a copy of the rental agreement, you may give the trustee other written
evidence of the existence of the rental agreement. The date that is 30 days before the date of the
sale is May 23, 2010, the name of the trustee and the trustee's mailing address are listed on this
notice. Federal law may grant you additional rights, including a right to a longer notice period.
Consult a lawyer for more information about you rights under federal law. You have the right to
apply your security deposit and any rent you prepaid toward your current obligation under your
rental agreement. If you want to do so, you must notify' your landlord in writing and in advance
that you intend to do so. If you believe you need legal assistance with this matter, you may contact the Oregon State Bar and ask for the lawyer referral service. Contact information for the Oregon State Bar is included with this notice: If you have a low income and meet federal poverty
guide-lines, you may be eligible for free legal assistance. Contact information for where you can
obtain free legal assistance is included with this notice. OREGON STATE BAR 16037 SW Upper
Boones Ferry Road Tigard, Oregon 97224 (503) 620-0222 (800) 452-8260 http://www.osbar.org
Directory of Legal Aid Programs:http://www.oregonlawhelp.org Cal-Western Reconveyance Corporation 525 East Main Street P.O. Box 22004 El Cajon CA 92022-9004 Cal-Western Reconveyance Corporation Signature/By: Tammy Laird

Reference is made to that certain deed made by, MICHAEL C HOUSE AND SARA D HOUSE as
Grantor to FIRST AMERICAN TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY OF OREGON, as trustee, in favor of
MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., SOLELY AS NOMINEE FOR AMERICAN
MORTGAGE NETWORK, INC., DBA AMERICAN MORTGAGE NETWORK OF OREGON, A CORPORATION, as Beneficiary, dated 1/23/2006, recorded 1/27/2006, in official records of DESCHUTES
County, Oregon in book/reel/volume No. xxx at page No. xxx fee/file/instrument/microfile/reception No 2006Â06434, covering the following described real property situated in said County
and State, to-wit:
APN: 247807
LOT 63, VILLAGE POINTE, PHASES 2 & 3
DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON.
Commonly known as:
2990 SW DESCHUTES AVE REDMOND, OR 97756
Both the beneficiary and the trustee have elected to sell the said real property to satisfy the obligations secured by said trust deed and notice has been recorded pursuant to Section 86.735(3) of
Oregon Revised Statutes: the default for which the foreclosure is made is the grantor's: The installments of principal and interest which became due on 9/1/2009, and all subsequent installments of principal and interest through the date of this Notice, plus amounts that are due for late
charges, delinquent property taxes, insurance premiums, advances made on senior liens, taxes
and/or insurance, trustee's fees, and any attorney fees and court costs arising from or associated
with the beneficiaries efforts to protect and preserve its security, all of which must be paid as a
condition of reinstatement, including all sums that shall accrue through reinstatement or pay-off.
Nothing in this notice shall be construed as a waiver of any fees owing to the Beneficiary under
the Deed of Trust pursuant to the terms of the loan documents. Monthly Payment $1,112.44
Monthly Late Charge $55.62 By this reason of said default the beneficiary has declared all obligations secured by said deed of trust immediately due and payable, said sums being the following,
to-wit: The sum of $168,493.30 together with interest thereon at the rate of 6.5000 per annum
from 8/1/2009 until paid; plus all accrued late charges thereon; and all trustee's fees, foreclosure
costs and any sums advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms of said deed of trust.
Whereof, notice hereby is given that LSI TITLE COMPANY OF OREGON, LLC, the undersigned
trustee will on 4/26/2010 at the hour of 11:00:00 AM , Standard of Time, as established by section 187.110, Oregon Revised Statues, at FRONT ENTRANCE OF THE COURTHOUSE, 1164 N.W.
BOND STREET, BEND, OR County of DESCHUTES, State of Oregon, sell at public auction to the
highest bidder for cash the interest in the said described real property which the grantor had or
had power to convey at the time of the execution by him of the said trust deed, together with any
interest which the grantor or his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said trust
deed, to satisfy the foregoing obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale,
including a reasonable charge by the trustee. Notice is further given that any person named in
Section 86.753 of Oregon Revised Statutes has the right to have the foreclosure proceeding
dismissed and the trust deed reinstated by payment to the beneficiary of the entire amount then
due (other than such portion of said principal as would not then be due had no default occurred),
together with the costs, trustee's and attorney's fees and curing any other default complained of
in the Notice of Default by tendering the performance required under the obligation or trust deed,
at any time prior to five days before the date last set for sale. For Sale Information Call:
714-730-2727 or Login to: www.fidelityasap.com 1 In construing this notice, the masculine
gender includes the feminine and the neuter, the singular includes plural, the word "grantor"
includes any successor in interest to the grantor as well as any other persons owing an obligation,
the performance of which is secured by said trust deed, the words "trustee" and 'beneficiary"
include their respective successors in interest, if any. Pursuant to Oregon Law, this sale will not be
deemed final until the Trustee's deed has been issued by LSI TITLE COMPANY OF OREGON, LLC.
If there are any irregularities discovered within 10 days of the date of this sale, that the trustee
will rescind the sale, return the buyer's money and take further action as necessary. If the Trustee
is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder's sole and exclusive remedy shall be
the return of monies paid to the Trustee, and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse.
If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of
the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the
Mortgagee, or the Mortgagee's Attorney. NOTICE TO TENANTS If you are a tenant of this
property, foreclosure could affect your rental agreement. A purchaser who buys this property at a
foreclosure sale has the right to require you to move out after giving you notice of the requirement. If you do not have a fixed-term lease, the purchaser may require you to move out after
giving you a 30-day notice on or after the date of the sale. If you have a fixed-term lease, you may
be entitled to receive after the date of the sale a 60-day notice of the purchaser's requirement
that you move out. To be entitled to either a 30-day or 60-day notice, you must give the Trustee
of the Deed of Trust written evidence of your rental agreement at least 30 days before the date
first set for the sale. If you have a fixed-term lease, you must give the Trustee a copy of the rental
agreement. If you do not have a fixed-term lease and cannot provide a copy of the rental
agreement, you may give the trustee other written evidence of the existence of the rental
agreement. The date that is 30 days before the date of the sale is 3/27/2010 the name of the
Trustee and the Trustee's mailing address is set forth on this Notice of Sale below. Federal law
may grant you additional rights, including a right to a longer notice period. Consult a lawyer for
more information about your rights under federal law. You have the right to apply your security
deposit and any rent you prepaid toward your current obligation under your rental agreement. If
you want to do so, you must notify your Landlord in writing and in advance that you intend to do
so. If you believe you need legal assistance with this matter, you may contact the Oregon State
Bar and ask for the lawyer referral service. Contact information for the Oregon State Bar is
included below with this notice. If you have a low income and meet federal poverty guidelines,
you may be eligible for free legal assistance. Contact information for where you can obtain free
legal assistance is included below with this notice. Oregon State Bar: (503) 684-3763; (800)
452-7636 Legal assistance: www.lawhelp.org/or/index.cfm Dated: 12/18/2009 LSI TITLE
COMPANY OF OREGON, LLC, as trustee 3220 El Camino Real Irvine, CA 92602 Signature By Seth
Ott, Assistant Secretary Quality Loan Service Corp. of Washington as agent for LSI TITLE
COMPANY OF OREGON, LLC 2141 5th Avenue San Diego, CA 92101 619-645-7711 For Non-Sale
Information: Quality Loan Service Corp. of Washington 2141 5th Avenue San Diego, CA 92101
619-645-7711 Fax: 619-645-7716 If you have previously been discharged through bankruptcy,
you may have been released of personal liability for this loan in which case this letter is intended
to exercise the note holder's rights against the real property only. THIS OFFICE IS ATTEMPTING
TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. As
required by law, you are hereby notified that a negative credit report reflecting on your credit
record may be submitted to a credit report agency if you fail to fulfill the terms of your credit
obligations.